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> One small quibble: if Congress wants to impose a law, it should pass that law, even if only to replicate the treaty as is understood by the US.

That is how it works; treaties usually use language to this effect. There's no real legal weight until that happens. For example, we are signatories to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (thanks, JFK), and Article 36 criminalizes possession, but until Nixon finished the work, it didn't have teeth: you can be charged under federal laws regulating possession but there is no authority to charge you under Article 36 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. This is also why we've got the legal status we have for marijuana, right, the federal government can't roll back its prohibition without violating the treaty, but it doesn't appear to be the case that they even care beyond DEA budget concerns: here's a business that holds land for use as a massive pot farm and the IRS issues them an EIN like any other business.