[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 3 (Friday, January 4, 2002)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 479-480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-326]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7516 of December 27, 2001

                
To Extend Nondiscriminatory Treatment (Normal 
                Trade Relations Treatment) to the Products of the 
                People's Republic of China

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                1. The United States and the People's Republic of China 
                (China) opened trade relations in 1980. Since that 
                time, the products of China have received 
                nondiscriminatory treatment pursuant to annual waivers 
                of the requirements of section 402 of the Trade Act of 
                1974 (the ``Trade Act'') (19 U.S.C. 2432). Trade 
                between the United States and China has expanded 
                significantly even though China has maintained 
                restrictions on market access for U.S. exports and 
                investment.

                2. On November 15, 1999, the United States and China 
                agreed on certain terms and conditions for China's 
                accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) that 
                when implemented will eliminate or greatly reduce the 
                principal barriers to trade and investment in China.

                3. On November 9, 2001, pursuant to section 101(b) of 
                Public Law 106-286, 114 Stat. 881, I transmitted a 
                report to the Congress certifying that the terms and 
                conditions for the accession of China to the WTO are at 
                least equivalent to those agreed between the United 
                States and China on November 15, 1999. On November 10, 
                2001, the Ministerial Conference of the WTO approved 
                the terms and conditions for China's accession and 
                invited China to become a member of the WTO. China has 
                accepted these terms and conditions and became a WTO 
                member on December 11, 2001.

                4. Pursuant to section 101(a)(1) of Public Law 106-286, 
                114 Stat. 881, I hereby determine that chapter 1 of 
                title IV of the Trade Act should no longer apply to 
                China.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the 
                United States of America, acting under the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States, including but not limited to sections 
                101(a)(2) and 102(a) of Public Law 106-286, 114 Stat. 
                881, do hereby proclaim that:

                    (1) Nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade 
                relations treatment) shall be extended to the products 
                of China; and
                    (2) The extension of nondiscriminatory treatment to 
                the products of China shall be effective as of January 
                1, 2002.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                twenty-seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord 
                two thousand one, and of the Independence of the United 
                States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)B

[FR Doc. 02-326
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