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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.
Generally under United States law (18 U.S.C. § 3184), extradition may be granted only pursuant to a treaty. [13] Some countries grant extradition without a treaty, but every such country requires an offer of reciprocity when extradition is accorded in the absence of a treaty. [13]
No country in the world has an extradition treaty with all other countries; for example, the United States lacks extradition treaties with China, Russia, Namibia, the United Arab Emirates, North Korea, Bahrain, and many other countries. [3] There are two types of extradition treaties: list and dual criminality treaties.
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.
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.
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.
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