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Chinese Official Ties World Trade Organization Pact to Beijing's Status.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1999 by Feduschak, Natalia A.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Nov. 19 -- A prominent Chinese official said yesterday that unless Congress grants Beijing permanent normal-trade-relations (NTR) status, the much-applauded Sino-American agreement signed Monday will die.

"People should realize the U.S. has made a lot of concern in China," Liu Xiaoming, deputy chief of mission at the Chinese Embassy, told a news conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "If the U.S. can't implement permanent NTR ... there is no implementation (of the agreement) under World Trade Organization rules."

China, which has negotiated entry in the 134-member body for the last 13 years, has been lobbying hard to get permanent NTR -- formerly called most favored nation -- status from Congress,...

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