INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Treaty and Convention Sources

General

• Avalon Project A project of Yale Law School, this site includes the text of documents in law, history and diplomacy, from the 17th century to the present.

• Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage
  World Heritage Center, UNESCO, Paris, France.
• EU Official Documents
• EUR-Lex Access to the Official Journal, treaties, legislation, community preparatory acts and a searchable case-law database.
• Eurodocs Primary historical documents from Western Europe.
• European Commission Secretariat-General
• European TreatiesCouncil of Europe.
• Food and Agriculture Organization (U. N.) Treaties deposited with the FAO.
• ICOMOS International Council on Monuments and Sites Charters and Other Instruments
• ILOLEX International Labour Organization database on international labour standards.
• International Agreements Database From the U. S. Department of Energy.
• Internet Law Library: Treaties and International Law
• Juris International: International Legal Instruments A searchable and browsable database of international conventions, codified rules and common usages of international commerce. Instruments with international scope are given priority.
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Convention and Associated Protocols
• Organization of American States Choose Documents, then Treaties and Conventions. Searchable and full text.
• South African Cyber Treaty Series
• UNESCO Legal Instruments
• U. S. Institute of Peace Library Peace Agreements The Peace Agreements Digital Collection strives to contain the full text of agreements signed by the majorcontending parties ending inter- and intra-state conflicts worldwide since1989.
• U.S. Senate, House and Treaty Documents A searchable archive of documents from the 104th to the current Congress and sponsored by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Results given in text, .pdf file, and summaries.

Arms/Security

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction Technical Secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands.

• International Atomic Energy Agency Conventions and Agreements under IAEA auspices. Text and status information.

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Basic Texts.
• UN Conference on Disarmament Major international instruments on disarmament and related issues (full text of treaties).
• United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs In addition to the home page, see their page on the status of Multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements, which provides texts as well as status information.
• U. S. State DepartmentEach bureau has its own treaty section, with agreements ranging from the "Hot LineAgreement" (1962) to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Analysis isincluded with some of the agreements.
• Bureau of Arms Control
• Bureau of Nonproliferation
• Bureau of Verification and Compliance

Country Resources

• Argentina List, by country, of bilateral agreements.
• Australian Treaties Library
• Bolivia List of bilateral agreements organized by region.
• Canada Trade Agreements and Negotiations
• Canado-American Treaties Full text and searchable.
• China Full text of selected bilateral and multilateral treaties.
• Colombia Full-text, arranged by uniform title.
• Costa Rica Bilateral; full text.
• Croatia Bilateral agreements listed by country.
• Ecuador Multilateral agreements and bilateral agreements listed by country.
• France: Base Pacte French database of Bilateral treaties and some multilateral. Searchable database with status information.
• Germany Full text of selected instruments arranged chronologically.
• Honduras Treaties searchable by subject, country or text.
• Hong Kong: List of Multilateral International Agreements That Are In Force And Are Applicable To The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
• Iceland EFTA Free trade agreements, some full text.
• Italy arranged by broad subject and country; some full text.
• Lithuania Access treaties by choosing "treaty" as a document type. Searches full text by keyword.
• Malaysia Maintains a page for Multilateral Agreements to which it is a party and a page (under construction) for Bilateral Agreements. Choose from the menu on the left.
• Mexico: Treaties
• Netherlands Choose "Trachtatenblad" and search by keyword or citation.
• Norway Environmental agreements.
• Paraguay List of bilateral agreements without text.
• South African Cyber Treaty Series
• Switzerland Full-text, organized by subject category.
• Turkey: Treaties Selected full-text.
• United Kingdom: Treaties Contains text and status information for treaties for which UK acts as a depository. List of others.

Environment, Biodiversity and Climate

• Antarctic Treaty System
  Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) Major /global/ Environmental Instruments
• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, UNEP, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada.
• The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) carries the text of the treaty as well as updated appendices and notifications on endangered species.
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar Convention), IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Convention to Combat Desertification, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) Full text, summaries and status of treaties and other international agreements related to /global/ environmental change. Maintained by Columbia University's Center for International Earth ScienceInformation Network.
• European Environmental Law Full text cases and legislation on European Community Environmental Law as well as conference listings, discussion forums, reviews and links. Housed at Maastricht University.
• Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission.
• International Water Law Project
• International Whaling Commission Secretariat for the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling.
• Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law Includes Fisheries Agreements and texts dealing with marine mammals and other species.
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: International Agreements Concerning Living Marine Resources of Interest to NOAA Fisheries
• North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation at the
  Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada.
• Ozone Secretariat Nairobi, Kenya. Maintains the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.
• Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database From Oregon State University, a searchable database of summaries and full text of 150 water-related treaties.
• United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Secretariat
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat
• United Nations Environment Programme Register of Environmental Conventions

Human Rights/Humanitarianism

• European Convention on Human Rights Strasbourg, European Court of Human Rights.
• Fourth World Documentation Project From the Center for World Indigenous Studies.
• Human Rights Web Includes a Summary of UN Agreements on Human Rights.
• International Humanitarian Law Database From the International Committee of the Red Cross.
• Project Diana An international human rights database from Yale Law School.
• UN Documentation Research Guide on Human Rights
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: International Human Rights Instruments
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Treaty Bodies Database
• UN Human Rights Treaties
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library has a well-organized,comprehensive, and easy-to-use collection of human rights treaties and instruments. This site includes citations to print sources for each instrument.

Native Americans

• Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties From Oklahoma State University. Treaties arranged by date.
• Native American Treaties Searchable database of treaties.

Oceans

• International Maritime Organization Conventions
• Ocean Conventions and their Status
• United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea

Private International Law

• Hague Conventions on Private International Law Texts and status information. Includes bibliographies and translations.
• UNIDROIT International Conventions drawn up by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) and adopted at diplomatic conferences convened by member States of UNIDROIT. Texts and status information.
• U. S. Department of State. Private International Law Database (PILDB) Contains an extensive listing of documents, treaties, international projects in progress, trade/business transaction law, family law, rules, model laws and legal guides.

Status Information

• Current status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations This is a subscription database available to authorized users of the Ginn Library.
• United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs page on the status of Multilateral Arms Regulation and Disarmament Agreements.
• U.S. Department of State
• Treaties in Force
• Treaty Actions
• U.S. Senate Legislative Activities: Treaties This site identifies treaties received from the President, treaties on the Executive Calendar, treaties approved by the Senate, and listings of other recent treaty status actions, including treaties that were rejected by the Senate or withdrawn by the President, during the current Congress.

Trade and Commercial Relations

• Bilateral Investment Treaties from the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.
• Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
• European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
• Income Tax Treaties from the United States Internal Revenue Service.
• International Alternative Dispute ResolutionTreaties and Conventions in international arbitration of commercial disputes.
• International Trade Library A fairly comprehensive listing of trade treaties and documents.
• Juris International At the University of Montreal, a searchable database of international trade treaties.
• Lex Mercatoria & International Trade/Commercial Law Monitor A comprehensive site, housed at the University of Tromso in Norway, which includes connections to trade documents, conventions, law resources, international organizations and news sources.
• MERCOSUR Secretariat This is the official MERCOSUR site. A detailed resource with treaties, maps and regulations.
• NAFTA Secretariat
• NAFTA Treaty An indexed, full-text version of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
• Organization of American States (OAS) Trade Documents Full text trade agreements between countries of the Western Hemisphere. Includes multilateral agreements (e.g., WTO/GATT), free trade agreements (e.g., NAFTA), bilateral agreements, regional scope agreements (e.g., ALADI), customs unions agreements (e.g., Mercosur, Caricom), etc.
• Trade Compliance Center
• UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
• UN Convention of Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (UNCISG)
• U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)

• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland

• WIPO Administered Treaties (World Intellectual PropertyOrganisation)
• World Trade Organization