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This list of United States extradition treaties includes 116 countries. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The first U.S. extradition treaty was with Ecuador , in force from 1873. [ 3 ] The most recent U.S. extradition treaty is with Croatia , in force from 2022.
It has been ratified by 69 countries, including every country of the Council of Europe except Monaco. [1] It has also been ratified by 21 states outside the Council of Europe, including Australia, Canada, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, the United States and Brazil. The latest accession to the Convention was Brazil in June 2023.
Treaties concluded or ratified by Russia. Where appropriate, articles should be placed in the subcategories. This category may contain articles about treaties concluded or ratified by Russia since 25 December 1991, which was the date on which the Soviet Union was dissolved and the Russian SFSR became the Russian Federation.
August 2023 also saw Russia pass a decree (No. 585) to partially suspend certain sections of double tax treaties (DTT) with unfriendly countries which results in standard withholding taxes applying, 15% on dividends, and 20% on interest payments, royalties and non dividend profit distributions. Some double taxation will also now occur.
Between countries, extradition is normally regulated by treaties. Where extradition is compelled by laws, such as among sub-national jurisdictions, the concept may be known more generally as rendition. It is an ancient mechanism, dating back to at least the 13th century BCE, when an Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses II, negotiated an extradition ...
The extradition treaty remains in force, according to a U.S. State Department spokesperson who spoke on background. The official defended extradition as mutually beneficial to both countries.
Article 6 of the Convention provides a legal basis for extradition in drug-related cases among countries having no other extradition treaties. In addition, the Convention requires the parties to provide mutual legal assistance to one another upon request, for purposes of searches, seizures, service of judicial documents, and so on.
While technically, it has an extradition agreement with the U.S., the treaty was signed in 1996, a year before Great Britain transferred control of Hong Kong to China.