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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2017
1 19 U.S.C. §§2432, 2439 (1994 & Supp. IV 1998). For background information on the Jackson-Vanik amendment, see Michael S. McMahon, Comment, The Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act of1974: An Assessment After Five Years, 18 COLUM.J. TrANSNAT’lL . 525 (1980).
2 In addition to receiving the waiver, the PRC was required to conclude a bilateral trade agreement with the United States providing for reciprocal nondiscriminatory treatment of imports. Agreement on Trade Relations, July 7, 1979, U.S.-P.R.C., 31 UST 4651, 1202 UNTS 179. On U.S.-PRC trade relations, see BEYOND MFN: T rade WITH CHINA AND American In te re sts (James R. Lilley & Wendell L. Willkie II eds., 1994); The Future of United States-China Trade Relations and the Possible Accession of China to the World Trade Organization: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Trade of the House Comm, on Ways and Means, 105th Cong. (Nov. 4, 1997).
3 Statement on the Decision to Extend Normal Trade Relations Status with China, 35 WEEKLYCOMP. PRES. DOC. 1030 (June 7,1999).
4 Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Trade of the House Ways and Means Comm., 106th Cong. (June 8,1999) (testimony of Stanley O. Roth, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, available in <http://www.state.gov/www/policy_remarks/1999/990608_roth_china.html>
5 U.S., China Expect to Hold New Talks On WTO Accession in October, USTR Says, 16 Int’l Trade Rep. (BNA) 1550 (Sept. 29,1999). China was an original member of the GATT until shortly after the 1949 Chinese revolution and the founding of the PRC. The ousted nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, in a communication to the UN Secretary-General sent from Taiwan, formally withdrew from the GATT on behalf of China. Although the PRC has protested the validity of that withdrawal, die PRC has not been regarded as a member of the GATT since May 5,1950, when the withdrawal took effect. See Raj B hala, In te rn a tio n a l Trade Law 92 (1996).
6 See Lawrence H. Summers, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, The United States and China at the Dawn of a New Century, Remarks to the Asia Society Annual Dinner (Oct. 12, 1999), available in <http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/psl47.htm.>; see also David E. Sanger, Clinton Seeks China Deal on Trade by Month’s End, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 2, 1999, at Al.
7 USTR Press Release on U.S., China Sign Historic Trade Agreement (Nov. 15, 1999), available in <http://www.ustr.gov>; Hearing Before the House Ways and Means Comm., 106th Cong. (Feb. 16,2000) (testimony of Charlene Barshefsky, U.S. Trade Representative), available in <http://www.ustr.gov>.
8 USTR Press Release on USTR Barshefsky’s Press Remarks Following Negotiations with China on the WTO (Nov. 15, 1999), available in <http://www.ustr.gov>; see Erik Eckholm & David E. Sanger, U.S. Reaches an Accord to Open China Economy As Worldwide Market, N.Y. Times, Nov. 16, 1999, at A l.
9 U.S. Dep’t of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 19 99,106th Cong. (Joint Comm. Print 2000). The report notes that by the end of 1999 almost all the C hina Democracy Party’s leaders were in jail.
10 Elizabeth Olson, Many Steps to Go Before China Can Become a Full Member, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 16, 1999, at C ll (comments of WTO Director-General Michael Moore).
