U.S. Consideration of Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China: Hearings Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, on the U.S.-China Bilateral Market Access Agreement, Human Rights, and U.S. National Security Concerns, February 23, March 23, and April 6, 2000, 第 4 卷U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 255 頁 |
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第 132 頁 - China's view of its own regional interests and role whose importance for our national security cannot be overstated. THE ROLE OF US TRADE POLICY A bipartisan US trade policy over the past thirty years has contributed to these positive trends. Broadly speaking, our goals have been to support Chinese domestic economic reform, integrate China into the Pacific regional economy, through a variety of means including commercially meaningful agreements that open opportunities for Americas.
第 138 頁 - ... will be concerned about the same issues we raise and all of whom will have the legal right to enforce China's commitments. Fifth, the specificity of China's commitments in this bilateral agreement will help us ensure that China complies. Experience shows that agreements with China are implemented and enforced most satisfactorily when obligations are concrete, specific, and open to monitoring.
第 135 頁 - Furniture - China will reduce its current average tariff rate of 22% to 0% on all furniture items covered by the Uruguay Round sectoral initiative, by 2005. Accelerated Tariff Liberalization — China has agreed to implement the Accelerated Tariff Liberalization initiative of APEC now under consideration in the WTO, when consensus is achieved. This would eliminate tariffs on forest products, environmental goods and services, energy and energy equipment, fish, toys, gems and jewelry, medical equipment...
第 132 頁 - America, as the world's largest importer and exporter, benefits perhaps most of all: the efficiency of our industries and the high living standards of our families reflect both the gains we receive from open markets abroad, and the benefits of our own open-market policies at home. But the development of the trading system has had equally important effects worldwide. As it has developed over the past fifty years, the world economy has grown six-fold; per capita income nearly tripled; and hundreds...
第 135 頁 - China will liberalize its purchase of key bulk agricultural commodities like wheat, corn, rice, cotton and soybean oil, through tariff-rate quotas - that is, application of very low tariffs (1% for bulk commodities) on a set volume of commodities. We include in this portion of the agreement provisions to maximize the likelihood that these TRQs are filled. In particular, a portion of each TRQ is reserved for importation through private traders, and TRQs which have not been filled by a set date will...
第 134 頁 - Agreement— China will participate in the Information Technology Agreement (ITA), eliminating all tariffs on such information technology products as semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, computer and computer equipment and other items by 2003 in most cases and 2005 in a few others.
第 229 頁 - US when the agreement goes into effect. China has also offered the equivalent of this bilateral negotiation to many of our competitors. China will join the WTO, and our competitors will have the market to themselves unless Congress acts quickly to grant China permanent normal trading relations. The vote for permanent normal trade relations is about trade.
第 150 頁 - Since 1988, the Business Software Alliance has been the voice of the world's leading software developers before governments and with consumers in the international marketplace. Its members represent the fastest growing industry in the world.
第 132 頁 - ... best testimony to this success is that many of the new applicants to join the WTO are nations which are abandoning the postwar experiment in communist central planning. CHINA FROM REVOLUTION TO REFORM This brings me to China. With the Communist revolution, China set out upon a very different road. After 1949, it shut doors it had once opened to the world. Among its new leaders' first steps were to expel foreign businesses from China and bar direct economic contact between Chinese citizens and...
第 137 頁 - WTO entry will guarantee our right to continue using our current "non-market economy" methodology in anti-dumping cases for fifteen years after China's accession to the WTO. Subsidies - Likewise, when we apply our countervailing duty law to China, we will be able to take the special characteristics of China's economy into account. Specifically, where government benefits are provided to an industry sector and state-owned enterprises are the predominant recipients or receive a disproportionate share...