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00 CIS S 38137
TITLE: Giving the
People's Republic of China Permanent MFN: Implications for U.S. Policy
CIS-NO: 2000-S381-37
SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Relations.
Senate
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DOC-NO: S. Hrg. 106-635
DATE: Apr. 11, 2000
LENGTH: iii+63 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1039-A; 1039-B
SUDOC: Y4.F76/2:S.HRG.106-635
CIS DOCUMENT ON DEMAND: 1-800-227-2477 (Full Text Reproductions)
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-25922-8.
SUMMARY:
Hearing to review proposal to extend permanent normal trade relations
(PNTR) status to products from the People's Republic of China
(PRC), in connection with China bid for accession to the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
Supplementary material (p. 56-63) includes
submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: China trade
relations permanent status estab, issues review
DESCRIPTORS:
CHINA,
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC; FOREIGN TRADE; FOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS; WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATION
00-S381-37 TESTIMONY NO: 1 Apr. 11, 2000
p. 3-10
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WEI, JINGSHENG (Chinese dissident)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Opposition to extending
PNTR status to China.
CONTENT NOTATION:
China trade relations permanent status estab, issues
review
00-S381-37 TESTIMONY NO: 2
Apr. 11, 2000 p. 11-56
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
WALDRON, ARTHUR (Director, Asian Studies, American
Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research)
MASTEL,
GREG (Director, Global Economic Policy Project, New America Foundation)
KAPP, ROBERT A. (President, U.S.-China Business Council)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Arguments
against extending PNTR status to China; problems facing U.S.
and WTO in enforcing WTO accession agreement with China, citing China failure to
comply with terms of other trade agreements with U.S.; benefits of extending
PNTR status to China (related materials, p. 29-33, 43-50).
INSERTION:
-- Barnes, Joe (Rice Univ),
"Slaying the China Dragon: The New China Threat School" excerpt from China and
Long-Range Asia Energy Security: An Analysis of the Political, Economic and
Technological Factors Shaping Asian Energy Markets (p. 34-43).
CONTENT NOTATION:
China trade relations permanent
status estab, issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
LOAD-DATE:
January 11, 2001 
