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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carausius, post: 2974871, member: 76440&quot;]Quite the contrary, the United States (my home) is regularly being asked to enter into memoranda of understanding with source countries to impose import restrictions on source country cultural property.&nbsp; These source countries are either unable or unwilling to enforce their own draconian laws, so they look to U.S. taxpayers to pay for heightened border searches to do the job for them. Under these circumstances, I&#039;d argue that every taxpaying U.S. citizen has an interest in the reform of draconian cultural property laws of source countries into systems reasonably capable of being enforced within the source country&#039;s own borders.&nbsp; Our way of influencing such reform is to lobby our legislators and state department to prohibit future MoUs with any source country that does not reform to a report-incentivising system, like the U.K.&#039;s Portable Antiquities Scheme.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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