April 3, 2026 - This is a list of international treaties the United States has either not signed, not ratified, or signed/ratified but later withdrawn its signature/ratification from.

September 21, 2023 - Specifically, Trump has withdrawn from an unprecedented five Article II treaties in three years: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: The United States signed in December 1987 and ratified in June 1988.

Although the Constitution sets forth a definite procedure whereby the Executive has the power to make treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate, it is silent as to how treaties may be terminated. Moreover, not all agreements between the United States and foreign nations take the form of Senate-approved, ratified treaties.

1 Approved on May 26, 1960, with vote of 77 to 4; vote immediately followed by motion to reconsider, and on second vote treaty was rejected 49 to 30; second motion to reconsider was introduced on May 27, 1960, but was not taken up; treaty remained on calendar of Committee on Foreign Relations ...

November 3, 2025 - ... Under the Trump Administration, the United States has withdrawn from a variety of international treaties and agreements, such as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Paris Climate Agreement, INF Treaty, and Open Skies Treaty.

December 1, 2020 - December 2020 By Kingston Reif and Shannon Bugos · The United States formally withdrew from the 1992 Open Skies Treaty on Nov. 22 despite domestic and international pressure to remain party to the accord, including from President-elect Joe Biden and numerous U.S. allies

Presidents have unilaterally denounced or terminated dozens of treaties since Goldwater.

November 8, 2022 - Biden’s move was hailed by world leaders and applauded by environmentalists at home. But the climate convention wasn’t the only global environmental agreement from which the country has been conspicuously absent. Here are four international treaties that have been ratified by most of the world’s countries, but not the United States.

Among these treaties, a few have ... to ratify them problematic.[1] Among the treaties are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Ottawa Treaty....

July 13, 2026 - Established in 1992, the UNFCCC serves as the international structure for efforts to slow down climate change, providing the foundations for key treaties including the Paris Agreement, from which Trump has twice withdrawn.

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May 4, 2018 - The legal procedure through which the United States withdraws from treaties and other international agreements has been the subject of long-standing debate between the legislative and executive branches. Recently, questions concerning the role of Congress in the withdrawal process have arisen in response to President Donald J.

August 7, 2026 - List of Treaties Pending Before the Senate (U.S. State Department Website) The State Department's list includes treaties submitted for ratification during the current Congress as well as treaties submitted to the Senate during prior Congresses that remain pending and un-ratified. Note that un-ratified treaties remain pending before the Senate at the end of a congressional term, unless they are withdrawn by the president.

The Senate has considered and approved for ratification all but a small number of treaties negotiated by the president and his representatives. In some cases, when Senate leadership believed a treaty lacked sufficient support for approval, the Senate simply did not vote on the treaty and it was eventually withdrawn ...

December 1, 2020 - The United States would like to thank Canada and Hungary as co-depositaries for the Treaty on Open Skies, for hosting this meeting in accordance with Article XV of the Treaty. We also want to thank the other States Parties for coming together to share their views on this important topic.

June 29, 2018 - US President Donald Trump has made several controversial decisions, including ones that forced the US out of international institutions. Here are Trump's top five exits.

The past practices related to treaty termination have varied over the years.25 The first time that the United States terminated a treaty after the Constitution was ratified was in 1798. On the eve of possible hostilities with France, Congress passed, and President Adams signed, legislation stating that four U.S. treaties with France "shall not henceforth be regarded as legally obligatory on the government or citizens of the United States."26 Thomas Jefferson referred to the episode as support for the notion that only an "act of the legislature" can terminate a treaty;27 however, many commentators since have come to view this 1798 statute as a historical anomaly because it is the only instance in which Congress purported to terminate a treaty directly through legislation without relying on the President to provide a notice of termination to the foreign government.28 Moreover, because the 1798 statute was part of a series of congressional measures authorizing limited hostilities against

November 12, 2018 - Less than four decades ago, a D.C. ... withdrawal from a host of bilateral and multilateral arrangements, including the Paris Climate Agreement; the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA); the U.N....

Among the treaties unsigned or ... against Torture (OPCAT).[2] The United States is also one of the few countries not to have ratified the Kyoto Protocol.[3] According to a 2014 analysis by The New Republic, the ratification of a significant number of treaties signed ...

June 23, 2026 - ... Treaties in Force 2026 lists treaties and other international agreements of the United States on record in the Department of State, which, as of January 1, 2026, had not expired by their own terms or which had not been denounced by the parties, ...