Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
1987
What is it?
The treaty forced the US and Russia (then the Soviet Union) to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of about 300 to 3,400 miles. In 2014, the US accused Russia of violating the treaty in 2008. The Trump administration believes the treaty puts the US at a strategic disadvantage with China.
What's the Trump administration done?
Paris Agreement
2015
What is it?
A massive climate pact that includes nearly every country in the world, the Obama administration signed the US on, promising to curb its use of fossil fuels and to help mute the effects of climate change. Trump said the deal was poorly negotiated.
What's the Trump administration done?
Trans-Pacific Partnership
2016
What is it?
A massive trade deal meant to counteract China's economic power. Trump ran on a promise to spike the plan, saying it was unfair to American workers. The pact was never officially adopted by Congress. The other 11 nations have carried on without the US.
What's the Trump administration done?
South Korean Trade Deal (KORUS)
2012
What is it?
Trump renegotiated the deal to cut down on a trade deficit with South Korea. The Koreans put limits on the amount of steel they would sell to the US and the US exempted South Korea from the steel tariffs Trump imposed on many other countries.
What's the Trump administration done?
NAFTA
1994
What is it?
Trump repeatedly complained that the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, which remade the US economy, was poorly negotiated and gave too much away to Canada and Mexico. Its renegotiation, which he achieved this year, is less a wholesale rewrite than an update for the 21st century, albeit with help for dairy farmers in Wisconsin. Also, it got a new name: United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
What's the Trump administration done?
Group of Seven (G7)
1975, 2014
What is it?
The group of industrialized democracies, created in the 1970s, notably ejected Russia over its forcible annexation of Crimea in 2014. That's an episode less troubling to Trump, who wants Russia back in the room to make it the G8 again.
What's the Trump administration done?
Singapore Agreement
2018
What is it?
Trump has not only ended agreements or questioned them. He also made history by working directly with North Korea. The deal he entered has led to a North Korea pledge to halt its nuclear program, but the specifics are complicated.
What's the Trump administration done?
UN Human Rights Council
1946, under a slightly different name
What is it?
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley accused the 47-member body of bias against Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The US pulled out of the group the day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable." The rotating 47-member body represents a larger group of 107 nations.
What's the Trump administration done?
UN Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
1945
What is it?
The US stopped paying dues to the international body in late 2011 after the agency voted to accept a Palestinian bid for full membership and now owes approximately $550 million. The State Department cited an anti-Israel bias in pulling out of UNESCO in 2017. The US also had withdrawn from 1984 until 2002.
What's the Trump administration done?
Iran nuclear deal
2015
What is it?
Trump campaigned on a promise to withdraw the US from the Iran nuclear deal engineered by the Obama administration and others in the world community, and he delivered in May, despite an onslaught of lobbying from European leaders. He said the deal, in which Iran promised to ice its nuclear program in exchange for eased sanctions, was flawed. He promised to negotiate better deals and pointed to North Korea.
What's the Trump administration done?
NATO
1949
What is it?
Trump has teased upending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was created to counterbalance the Soviet Union and is one of the oldest and most important alliances the US takes part in. He's long complained that smaller nations don't spend the same proportion of their GDP on defense.
What's the Trump administration done?
World Trade Organization
1947 as GATT, 1995 as WTO
What is it?
Trump has been frustrated by international trade rules the US accepts as a member and his administration has written a draft bill, not yet introduced, that would seek to abandon key WTO principles on trade. He's hated having to get approval from Congress and instead focused on things like tariffs he can do on his own.
What's the Trump administration done?
What’s the Trump
administration done?
What is it?
Agreement
Countries involved
The treaty forced the US and Russia (then the Soviet Union) to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of about 300 to 3,400 miles. In 2014 the US accused Russia of violating the treaty in 2008. The Trump administration believes the treaty puts the US at a strategic disadvantage with China.
Intermediate-
Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty
1987
A massive climate pact that includes nearly every country in the world, the Obama administration signed the US on to curb its use of fossil fuels and to help mute the effects of climate change. Trump said the deal was poorly negotiated.
Paris
Agreement
2015
A massive trade deal meant to counteract China's economic power. Trump ran on a promise to spike the plan, saying it was unfair to American workers. The pact was never officially adopted by Congress. The other 11 nations have carried on without the US.
Trans-Pacific
Partnership
2016
Trump renegotiated the deal to cut down on a trade deficit with South Korea. The Koreans put limits on the amount of steel they would sell to the US and the US exempted South Korea from the steel tariffs Trump imposed on many other countries.
South Korean
trade deal
(KORUS)
2012
Trump repeatedly complained that the Clinton-era North American Free Trade Agreement, which remade the US economy, was poorly negotiated and gave too much away to Canada and Mexico. Its renegotiation, which he achieved this year, is less a wholesale rewrite than an update for the 21st century, albeit with help for dairy farmers in Wisconsin. Also, it got a new name: United States-Mexico-
Canada Agreement (USMCA).
NAFTA
1994
The group of industrialized democracies, created in the 1970s, notably ejected Russia over its forcible annexation of Crimea in 2014. That's an episode less troubling to Trump, who wants Russia back in the room to make it the G8 again.
Group of
Seven
(G7)
1975, 2014
Trump has not only ended agreements or questioned them. He also made history by working directly with North Korea. The deal he entered has led to a North Korea pledge to halt its nuclear program, but the specifics are complicated.
Singapore
Agreement
2018
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley accused the 47-member body of bias against Israel and a failure to hold human rights abusers accountable. The US pulled out of the group the day after the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights slammed the separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border as "unconscionable." The rotating 47-member body represents a larger group of 107 nations.
UN Human
Rights Council
1946, under a
slightly different
name
The US stopped paying dues to the international body in late 2011 after the agency voted to accept a Palestinian bid for full membership and now owes approximately $550 million. The State Department cited an anti-Israel bias in pulling out of UNESCO in 2017. The US also had withdrawn from 1984 until 2002.
UN Educational
Scientific and
Cultural
Organization
(UNESCO)
1945
Trump ran on a promise to withdraw the US from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, engineered by the Obama administration and others in the world community, and he delivered in May 2018. He said the deal, in which Iran promised to ice its nuclear program in exchange for eased sanctions, was "defective at its core."
Iran nuclear
deal
2015
Trump has teased upending the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which was created to counterbalance the Soviet Union and is one of the oldest and most important alliances the US takes part in. He's long complained that smaller nations don't spend the same proportion of their GDP on defense.
NATO
1949
Trump has been frustrated by international trade rules the US accepts as a member and his administration has written a draft bill, not yet introduced, that would seek to abandon key WTO principles on trade. He's hated having to get approval from Congress and instead focused on things like tariffs he can do on his own.
World Trade
Organization
1947 as GATT,
1995 as WTO