---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 2092"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "2092"
heading: "Export certification requirement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/2092"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Importation of Pre-Columbian Monumental or Architectural Sculpture or Murals"
---

# §2092. Export certification requirement

- (a) **Issuance by country of export—** No [pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural](/usc/19/2095.md?p=3) which is exported (whether or not such exportation is to the [United States](/usc/19/2095.md?p=2)) from the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4) after the effective date of the regulation listing such sculpture or mural pursuant to [section 2091 of this title](/usc/19/2091.md) may be imported into the [United States](/usc/19/2095.md?p=2) unless the government of the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4) of such sculpture or mural issues a certificate, in a form acceptable to the [Secretary](/usc/19/2095.md?p=1), which certifies that such exportation was not in violation of the laws of that [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3).
- (b) **Procedure when certificate lacking—** If the consignee of any [pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural](/usc/19/2095.md?p=3) is unable to present to the customs officer concerned at the time of making [entry](/usc/19/1677.md?p=23) of such sculpture or mural—
  - (1) the certificate of the government of the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4) required under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section;
  - (2) satisfactory evidence that such sculpture or mural was exported from the [country of origin](/usc/19/2095.md?p=4) on or before the effective date of the regulation listing such sculpture or mural pursuant to [section 2091 of this title](/usc/19/2091.md); or
  - (3) satisfactory evidence that such sculpture or mural is not covered by the list promulgated under [section 2091 of this title](/usc/19/2091.md);

  the customs officer concerned shall take the sculpture or mural into customs custody and send it to a bonded warehouse or public store to be held at the risk and expense of the consignee until such certificate or evidence is filed with such officer. If such certificate or evidence is not presented within the 90-day period after the date on which such sculpture or mural is taken into customs custody, or such longer period as may be allowed by the [Secretary](/usc/19/2095.md?p=1) for good cause shown, the importation of such sculpture or mural into the [United States](/usc/19/2095.md?p=2) is in violation of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–587, title II, § 202, Oct. 27, 1972, 86 Stat. 1297.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

References to section 202 of Pub. L. 92–587 in the original were translated as section 2091 of this title in the classification of Pub. L. 92–587 as the probable intent of Congress.