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a list of international treaties the United States has either not signed, not ratified, or signed/ratified but later withdrawn its signature/ratification from.

September 21, 2023 - Specifically, Trump has withdrawn from an unprecedented five Article II treaties in three years: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty: The United States signed in December 1987 and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

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 Under the Trump Administration, the United States has withdrawn from a variety of international treaties and agreements, such as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Paris Climate Agreement, INF Treaty, and Open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

January 8, 2026 - The US under President Trump is withdrawing from dozens of international organizations, including the IPCC and UNFCCC.

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

September 12, 2025 - 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 Note that un-ratified treaties remain pending before the Senate at the end of a congressional term, unless they are withdrawn by the president.

November 8, 2022 - It has three main stated objectives: the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components, and the equitable sharing of benefits that arise from using genetic resources. The United States was a big player in drafting the agreement, but when 150 nations stepped up to sign it, George W. Bush declined to do so. Bill Clinton signed the treaty after he took office in 1993, but it never received the necessary ratification vote by the Senate.

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

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The U.S. Government used treaties as one means to displace Indians from their tribal lands, a mechanism that was strengthened with the Removal Act of 1830. In cases where this failed, the government sometimes violated both treaties and Supreme Court rulings to facilitate the spread of European Americans westward across the continent. ... As the 19th century began, land-hungry Americans poured into the backcountry of the coastal South and began moving toward and into what would later become the states of Alabama and Mississippi. Since Indian tribes living there appeared to be the main obstacle to westward expansion, white settlers petitioned the federal government to remove them. Although Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe argued that the Indian tribes in the Southeast should exchange their land for lands west of the Mississippi River, they did not take steps to make this happen.

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 ...

1 week ago - Treaties are binding through the legal principle of pacta sunt servanda (Latin: "agreements must be kept"), under which parties are committed to perform their duties and honor their agreements in good faith. Accordingly, treaties are only binding on the parties that have signed and ratified them. A treaty may also be invalidated, and thus rendered unenforceable, if it violates a peremptory norm (jus cogens), such as permitting a war of aggression or crimes against humanity. Treaties serve as primary sources of international law and have codified or established many international legal principl

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.

January 16, 2026 - Use the PDF linked in the document sidebar for the official electronic format. ... By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct: Section 1 . Purpose. (a) On February 4, 2025, I issued Executive Order 14199 (Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations). That Executive Order directed the Secretary of State, in consultation with the United States Representative to the United Nations, to conduct a review of all international intergovernmental organizations of which the United States is a member and provides any type of funding or other support, and all conventions and treaties to which the United States is a party, to determine which organizations, conventions, and treaties are contrary to the interests of the United States.

January 9, 2026 - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the US’s withdrawal from 66 international organizations, including key climate treaties like the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the primary global treaty for coordinating international ...

The United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST) collected TIAS prints in one chronologically-organized bound collection from 1950 to 1982. Each UST volume also includes a subject index for ease of use. In addition to TIAS, the U.S. Department of State has also, since 1944, produced Treaties in Force. Published yearly, this resource provides a listing of all the bilateral and multilateral treaties and agreements to which the United States is a party that, as the name suggests, are still in force. The bilateral treaties and agreements are organized “by country or international entity, with subject headings under each entry,” while the multilateral treaties and agreements are organized by subject. The most recent edition of Treaties in Force can be found online at the U.S. Department of State’s Treaties in Force website. Often, citations to treaties will include either a “TIAS” or a “KAV” number.

January 14, 2026 - The United States signed the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control on November 10, 2004, but has not ratified it, remaining a non-party despite the treaty entering into force on February 27, 2005, with 182 parties ...