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The U.S. State Department has compiled a very good chart of what goods are considered illegal based on bi-lateral agreements with the US. This chart gives a timeline of what agreements have been and continue to be in effect between the U.S. and those countries with which it has signed a bi-lateral trade agreement.

Agreements between Guatemala and the U.S. were formed in 1991 in response to an emergency action to impose import restrictions on pre-Columbian Maya archaeological artifacts from the Peten region of Guatemala. This action was taken in response to a 1989 request to CPAC (The Cultural Property Advisory Committee) to protect “material, identified as comprising part of Guatemala's cultural patrimony, the record of the Maya culture found in the Peten region…in danger of being pillaged”