TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS A. Custom Matters · XI-A-9

United States and the Customs Convention on Containers

United States became bound on 1968-12-03, by accession, the 31st state to do so.

Treaty

Customs Convention on Containers

State

United States

Signed

not signed

Became bound

1968-12-03 — by accession

Treaty in force since

4 August 1959 by the exchange of the said letters, in accordance with article 13 [Note: Article 20(1) of the Customs Convention on Containers 1972 (see chapter XI.A-15), provides that, upon its entry into force, it shall terminate and replace, in relations between the Parties to the latter Convention, the present Convention. The said Convention of 1972 came into force on 6 December 1975.].

Depositary record

United Nations Treaty Collection

Accession is not ratification. A state accedes to a treaty it never signed, so there is no signature date to show and none is missing. The two are often written as though interchangeable; the record does not treat them that way, so neither does this page.

Where this sits

• 31 in order of becoming party
• 44 states bound in total
• Gene treaty adopted

Order is by the date the depositary records, and states that became bound on the same day share a position — eleven states became party to the Charter on 24 October 1945 and none of them was eleventh.

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