The Florence Agreement on the importation of educational, scientific, and cultural materials

After several years of delay, the United States seems about to join thirty‐one other countries which have ratified the Agreement on the Importation of Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials, the so‐called “Florence Agreement”. This agreement is one of several international conventions drawn up under the auspices of UNESCO and designed primarily to facilitate the freest possible international movement of persons, ideas, and materials in the fields of education, culture, and science. Some of the other conventions in this series are the Universal Copyright Convention (1952), the convention on audio‐visual materials (1948), and the convention on the protection of cultural property in wartime (1954).