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Trump to pull U.S. from conventional arms trade treaty

The treaty covers small arms, battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships. The U.S. is the world's biggest arms exporter.

Fake tombstones placed by the Control Arms Coalition line New York's East River.
Fake tombstones placed by the Control Arms Coalition line New York's East River during a 2012 diplomatic conference over the future Arms Trade Treaty. (AN/Andrew Kelly)

U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United States from another global treaty, this time a relatively new but growing accord to regulate the international trade in conventional arms.

Trump used an annual meeting of the United States' powerful gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, to unveil the latest multilateral mechanism to gain his ire: the landmark Arms Trade Treaty, or ATT.

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