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China Says Trade Status Not a 'Gift'
From: Rigzin Dolkar, CTC Toronto
SINGAPORE, Reuter, May 14 -- China's top trade official said
yesterday its most favoured nation trading status was not a "gift"
from the Americans.
It was Beijing's first reaction to a U.S. warning that conditions
would probably be placed on renewal of the status.
A U.S. official said in Beijing Wednesday that Washington was
likely to slap conditions on the MFN status, which lets billions
of dollars' worh of Chinese goods enter the U.S. market cheaply
eeach year.
Conditions 'unequal'
"We have agreed to MFN without any conditions. So it is unequal
for the U.S. to attch any conditions to the MFN sstatus," Wu Yi,
China's Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, said
yesterday while in Singapore.
"It's not a sort of gift of any other country to China," she
said.
Wu decline to say what steps China would take if the U.S. imposed
conditions.
U.S. President Bill Clinton must decide by June 3 whether to renew
China's MFN standing conditionally or unconditionally.
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7. China Says Trade Status Not a 'Gift'
From: Rigzin Dolkar, CTC Toronto
SINGAPORE, Reuter, May 14 -- China's top trade official said
yesterday its most favoured nation trading status was not a "gift"
from the Americans.
It was Beijing's first reaction to a U.S. warning that conditions
would probably be placed on renewal of the status.
A U.S. official said in Beijing Wednesday that Washington was
likely to slap conditions on the MFN status, which lets billions
of dollars' worh of Chinese goods enter the U.S. market cheaply
eeach year.
Conditions 'unequal'
"We have agreed to MFN without any conditions. So it is unequal
for the U.S. to attch any conditions to the MFN sstatus," Wu Yi,
China's Minister for Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation, said
yesterday while in Singapore.
"It's not a sort of gift of any other country to China," she
said.
Wu decline to say what steps China would take if the U.S. imposed
conditions.
U.S. President Bill Clinton must decide by June 3 whether to renew
China's MFN standing conditionally or unconditionally.
Articles in this Issue:
- China Attacks British Press for Tibet Editorial
- Dalai Lama Meets With Lech Welesa
- Dalai Lama Calls Poland Model for Peace
- Nepal Arrests Fleeing Tibetans
- Toronto Tibetans and Tibet Supporters to Protest Visit of Zhu Rongji
- Don't Just Hand Games to China
- China Says Trade Status Not a 'Gift'
- EC Delegates to Visit Tibet
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