North America
A significant number of cultural objects originating from Central American countries are at particular risk. Details of the relevant categories of objects can be found in the Red Lists for Central America and Mexico, Latin America, the Dominican Republic and Haiti maintained by the International Council of Museums (ICOM).
Links are provided below to information about the regulations governing exports from all of the North American countries that are signatory states to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, as well as certain countries that are not signatory states (Jamaica); this information is updated on a regular basis.
Terminological note: Some of the regulations aimed at protecting cultural property in the countries of Central and South America are enshrined in special constitutional law; as a result, cultural property may be classified by law as state property, and specific trade restrictions may apply to certain categories of cultural property.
