It isn't just that the U.S. hasn't ratified UNCLOS, the U.S. never signed it to begin with. Nevertheless, the United States has said repeatedly that it views t

It isn't just that the U.S. hasn't ratified UNCLOS, the U.S. never signed it to begin with. Nevertheless, the United States has said repeatedly that it views the FON provisions as customary international law. Indeed, they are largely copied from the 1958 Convention on the High Seas (which the United States ratified in 1962) and the 1958 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone (which the United States ratified in 1961).