China urged to buy more US agricultural products

ssherman ssherman at gborocollege.edu
Thu Dec 16 12:00:33 PST 1999


The US is always giving the silliest advice to the Chinese. Does anyone remember when someone in the Clinton administration told them they should blow their foreign reserves on more imports from Boeing?

Steven Sherman


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>15 December 1999
>China urged to buy more US agricultural products
>BEIJING: Beijing can help persuade the U.S. Congress to grant China
>permanent low-tariff trading rights by starting to import more American
>agricultural products, a senior US senator said on Tuesday.
>China should immediately implement an agreement it reached with the United
>States in April to drop barriers to imports of beef, citrus products and
>wheat from the U.S., Senator Max Baucus said at a briefing.
>China has yet to begin the wheat imports or send inspectors to Florida, as
>required by the agreement, said Baucus, a Democrat from Montana.
>Washington and Beijing reached a landmark trade deal last month smoothing
>China's way to enter the World Trade Organization, perhaps early next year.
>As part of the process, U.S. President Bill Clinton is asking Congress to
>give China permanent trading rights and do away with divisive annual
>reviews.
>Getting Congress to approve the permanent rights will be difficult and its
>members will be looking closely at China, said Baucus, who has supported
>trade relations for China and agrees with Clinton's policy not to link trade
>with human rights.
>"If rapid implementation of the agricultural cooperative agreement occurs,
>that will very much help," Baucus said. He predicted Congress would approve
>the measure next year if China lives up to the agriculture agreement and
>avoids any actions on human rights or Taiwan that would "roil the waters."
>Baucus said he offered his views on the trade debate in a meeting on Tuesday
>with Premier Zhu Rongji. During his two-day stay, Baucus also met with the
>agriculture minister and other officials. (AP)
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