Trade Treaties

10 treaties classed as trade in the database, signed 1794 to 2018, listed by date.

Chief Justice John Jay defused the war crisis over northwest forts, still occupied, and British impressment. Britain evacuated...

Napoleon, needing money for war with Britain and having failed to reconquer Haiti, sold 828,000 square miles for 15 million...

James Gadsden bought a 29,670 square mile strip of southern Arizona and New Mexico for 10 million dollars, intended for a...

Commodore Matthew Perry gunboat diplomacy opened Japan after 220 years of sakoku isolation. The treaty opened Shimoda and...

Richard Cobden and Michel Chevalier negotiated the pact that dropped tariffs between the two old rivals and attached a most...

Secretary of State William Seward bought Alaska for 7.2 million dollars, about 2 cents per acre. Ridiculed as Sewards Folly and...

Fifteen days after Panama independence, engineered by US warship presence, Bunau Varilla, a French engineer Panama had not even...

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, interim, the ITO never ratified by US Senate, became the de facto world trade...

Created the largest free trade area, abolishing tariffs over 15 years, supply chains integrated, auto, agriculture. Ross Perot...

Renegotiated NAFTA, 75 percent North American content for autos tariff free, 40 to 45 percent high wage labor, labor value rules...