[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1065 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1065

   To deny the People's Republic of China most-favored-nation trade 
                               treatment.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                May 28 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

 Mr. DeConcini introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To deny the People's Republic of China most-favored-nation trade 
                               treatment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that:
            (1) The People's Republic of China has engaged in flagrant 
        violations of internationally recognized standards of human 
        rights including--
                    (A) the illegal seizure and disappearance of forty 
                pro-democracy activists as reported on March 2, 1993 by 
                the human rights organization Asia Watch.
                    (B) the continuation of a policy of mandatory 
                sterilization and forced adherence to the one-child per 
                family policy through, among other methods, the 
                persecution of doctors who have removed government-
                mandated intrauterine devices from women; and
                    (C) continued reports of torture and otherwise 
                cruel treatment of political prisoners; and
                    (D) the religious persecution of citizens of China 
                and Tibet by detention and house arrest.
            (2) The People's Republic of China continues to harass and 
        restrict the Chinese and international media and to interfere 
        in Voice of America broadcasts to China and Tibet.
            (3) Troops of the People's Republic of China have killed 
        approximately one million Tibetans during China's illegal 
        occupation of Tibet, according to information provided by the 
        Dali Lama to Congress and the President.
            (4) The People's Republic of China continues to engage in a 
        policy of forced labor, according to reports from Asia Watch 
        and the General Accounting Office.
            (5) The People's Republic of China has refused to restrict 
        the proliferation of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons 
        and technology throughout the Third World, most recently, 
        concluding agreements to build two nuclear reactors of Iran, 
        after reportedly selling Iran uranium enriching equipment 
        capable of producing weapons grade material.

SEC. 2. DENIAL OF MOST-FAVORED-NATION TRADE TREATMENT TO THE PEOPLE'S 
              REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law--
            (1) the President shall terminate or withdraw any portion 
        of any trade agreement or treaty that relates to the provision 
        of nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment to 
        the People's Republic of China;
            (2) The People's Republic of China shall be denied 
        nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment by the 
        United States and the products of the People's Republic of 
        China shall be subject to the rates of duty set forth in column 
        number 2 of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 
        States; and
            (3) the People's Republic of China may not be provided 
        nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment under 
        any provision of title IV of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
        2431, et seq.).

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The provisions of this Act shall apply with respect to articles 
entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after the date 
that is fifteen days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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