Question about NAFTA

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

The Senate passed NAFTA with 61 votes in favor and 38 opposed.  However, the Constitution states that treaties must pass with 2/3 of the Senate in favor, which would be 67 votes.  I don't see how NAFTA would constitute as anything other than a treaty, so how could it have passed without 67 votes?

[bedstuy]

Easy, NAFTA wasn't a treaty.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Easy, NAFTA wasn't a treaty.

How is an agreement to establish a trade bloc not a treaty?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Easy, NAFTA wasn't a treaty.

How is an agreement to establish a trade bloc not a treaty?

When it is implemented as ordinary domestic legislation.

[Lief 🗽]

Most agreements with foreign countries are not passed through the Treaty Clause mechanism. NAFTA was a congressional-executive agreement: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional-executive_agreement#Law

Technically, there's nothing stopping every treaty from being passed this way, but in practice it's mostly only done for trade agreements and the like.

[ag]

Actually, these days most treaties signed by the US are not treaties by US law.