Database Name: U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements
Database Identifier: USTREATIES
Coverage
1778 to present
Content Highlights:
U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements includes American Indian treaties to which the U.S.A. is a party.
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Contents
Coverage
Coverage of international treaties begins with volume 8 Statutes at Large (1778) through volume 64 (1949) when United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (U.S.T.) became the official publication.
Coverage for U.S.T. begins with volume 1 part 1 and continues through volume 35 part IV (TIAS 10978, 1984). Subsequent treaties and other international agreements published in the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) from TIAS No. 10979 forward are also included.
Senate Treaty Document coverage begins with the 103rd Congress (1993), and State Department documents with State Dept. No. 90-1 (1990). Coverage also includes "Case-Zablocki Act" documents transmitted by the Secretary of State to the Congress beginning with 1990 transmittals. New Senate and State Department documents are added as they are made available by the government.
The Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (G.A.T.T.) and the text of the North American Free Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Canada and the Government of the United Mexican States (N.A.F.T.A.) are included.
Parallel citations to the primary Stat, UST and TIAS citations are displayed when available.
A document is a treaty or other international agreement.
Derivation
Print publications United States Statutes at Large and United States Treaties and Other International Agreements as well as Slip Copy obtained directly from the federal government for Westlaw.
Source(s)
United States Government Printing Office, United States Department of State and United States Senate.
Citation Format
Tip: Westlaw citations and FIND features are available for use in this database. To retrieve a document with a known Westlaw citation, access Find a Document and type the Westlaw Cite.
Searching and Fields
In this database you may choose the Terms and Connectors search method or the Natural Language search method.
With a Terms and Connectors search, you enter a query, which consists of key terms from your issue and connectors specifying the relationship between those terms. With Natural Language, you can retrieve documents by simply describing your issue in plain English.
For more information on using one of these search methods, see online Help.
Tip: Query Template
This database uses a custom query template in addition to Terms & Connectors and Natural Language searching. For Country Name, Title and Citation searching a default paragraph connector (/p) is entered when a space is left between terms. In order to search in the alternative, type the word OR between search terms. To use a different connector (for example /s or &) type the connector as usual.
Date and Additional Search Terms options in the template use standard Westlaw searching.
Tip: G.A.T.T. and N.A.F.T.A
To retrieve The Final Act Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (G.A.T.T.), enter the following terms & connectors query:
PR("final act" & "general agreement on tariffs and trade")
To retrieve the text of the North American Free Trade Agreement Between the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Canada and the Government of the United Mexican States (N.A.F.T.A.) enter the following terms & connectors query:
PR("nafta text")
Tip: Geneva Convention
To retrieve documents related to the Geneva Convention, enter the following terms & connectors query:
TI(geneva /p convention) & TO (war! armed-forces sick wounded (protection /s victim))
Tip: Use a date restriction in your query to retrieve documents that became effective, in-force, or were proclaimed on a specific date or during a specific range of dates, e.g., da(aft mm/dd/yyyy & bef mm/dd/yyyy).
The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:
| CI | CITATION | Unique references for citing to specific documents. |
| CTR | COUNTRY NAME | Foreign country that is party to the document. |
| TO | TOPIC | Subject matter of the document. |
| TI | TITLE | Title of the document. |
| YE | YEAR | "In Force", Effective, Proclaimed, or other significant date(s). |
| YS | YEAR SIGNED | Date(s) signed |
| TE | TEXT | Text of the document. |
| SI | AUTHOR | Name and title of all designated signers, if available. |
| EN | END | Annex and other supplementary materials, if available. |
Related Research
International Law databases contain documents that relate to relations among nations, especially those involving the United States. Among the subjects included are treaties and other agreements and regulations governing the conduct of international commerce, diplomacy, trade (such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), travel and war.
Related database: For "in force" status, the United States Treaties in Force database (USTIF) contains the U.S. Department of State's print publication of the same name.
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