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Treaties and International Agreements

Do you need to find the text of a current or past U.S. treaty or international agreement? Do you need to verify whether it is in force? This guide will help you find the text and verify whether or not it is currently in force.

Senate Materials

Consist of two main sources, Senate Treaty Documents, which generally contain the text of the Presidential communication supporting ratification and the treaty itself, and Senate Executive Reports, which are the reports generated by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

U.S. Treaties - Slip Form

The slips for agreements that the Senate had to approve and those that they didn't were published in separate places until the two types were brought together into one resource the Treaty and Other International Act Series (TIAS) in 1945.

U.S. Official Treaty Publication

Until 1948, all treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate were published in the United States Statutes at Large (Stat.), which can be found on the following databases:

Since 1950, the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST) collects and publishes annually and in a bound fashion all the slip agreements entered into, which can be found on the following databases: