PNTR And
Labor Rights in China
WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY

Part of a Continuing Series from the Business Coalition for U.S.-China Trade

"China's workers need higher labor standards, but opposing PNTR is not going to help... Opposing PNTR and WTO membership for China would undermine the very forces that are contributing to rising standards for Chinese labor..."
--Joint letter of America's leading experts on China's economy and society, March 30, 2000*

Loren Brandt
Professor of Economics
University of Toronto

Thomas R. Gottschang
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross

Doug Guthrie
Associate Professor of Sociology
New York University

Gary H. Jefferson
Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance
Graduate School of International Economics and Finance
Brandeis University

Lawrence J. Lau
Kwoh-Ting Li Professor of Economic Development
Department of Economics
Stanford University

Barry Naughton
Professor
Graduate School of International Relations & Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego
Dwight Perkins
H.H. Burbank Professor of Political Economy
Harvard University

Thomas G. Rawski
Professor of Economics and History
University of Pittsburgh

Bruce L. Reynolds
Professor of Economics
Union College

Scott Rozelle
Associate Professor
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Davis

Ezra F. Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
Harvard University

Martin King Whyte
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
The George Washington University

THEY STUDY CHINA'S LABOR MARKETS FOR A LIVING.
THEY SUPPORT PERMANENT NORMAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH CHINA.

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