[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 29 (Wednesday, March 16, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 16, 1994]
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                           MFN FOR CHINA? NOT

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, our trade deficit with China is now over 
$25 billion, the second biggest deficit we have. Year after year, 
Congress debates, then grants most-favored-nation trade status to 
China.
  Now, here is what China does every year for this distinction: They 
violate human rights and shoot down their own students; they have 
dumped products in our market illegally; they deny American products 
from being sold in China; they sell tanks and missiles to terrorist 
nations who would like to destroy America.
  Ladies and gentlemen, what do we do to these butchers on Tiananmen 
Square? We reward them.
  Beam me up.
  Their average wage is 17 cents an hour. This is not free trade, 
Congress; this is slave trade, and we are losing, we are losing.

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