Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved As Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than As Treaties

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Rules and practice.

United States.

Commercial treaties.

Executive-legislative relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] [publisher not identified] 1999

Summary:

Discusses why trade agreements, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, have been treated as Congressional-executive agreements subject to a majority vote of both houses of Congress rather than as treaties requiring a two-thirds vote of the Senate

Notes:

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Microfiche version Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Why Certain Trade Agreements Are Approved As Congressional-Executive Agreements Rather Than As Treaties

Publisher Number:

CRS-1999-AML-0018

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