[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 129 (Thursday, September 24, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8537]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  ILLEGAL TRADE PRACTICES BY THE CHINESE BALLOONS THEIR TRADE SURPLUS

  (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, China's trade surplus has ballooned to 
over $1 billion a week, and China is doing it illegally: prison labor, 
slave wages at 17 cents an hour, illegal dumping, trade barriers. When 
confronted, China thumbs their nose right in our faces.

                              {time}  1015

  In fact, they now say the real trade deficit in America is only 
pennies on the dollar with China. I ask today, who is teaching those 
communist accountants? The Internal Revenue Service?
  Beam me up.
  Mr. Speaker, I say this: Congress should stop coddling China. This is 
not about trade anymore. It is about national security. And a communist 
nation is ripping off Uncle Sam.

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