Later in the century, European countries like Britain, France, and Italy, realizing that their own cultural legacy was being sold piecemeal to the new world economic power, America, began to establish their own export restrictions. These usually give a government first right of refusal when an object deemed essential to national heritage is sold. By 1983, most Communist countries and developing nations had also established their own such restrictions, ranging from qualified sale limitations to full-scale export embargos.