[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 33, Number 22 (Monday, June 2, 1997)]
[Pages 807-808]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Most-Favored-Nation Trade Status for China

May 30, 1997

To the Congress of the United States:

    I hereby transmit the document referred to in subsection 402(d)(1) 
of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the ``Act''), with respect to the 
continuation of a waiver of application of subsections (a) and (b) of 
section 402 of the Act to the People's Republic of China. This document 
constitutes my recommendations to continue in effect this waiver for a 
further 12-month period and includes my determination that continuation 
of the waiver

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currently in effect for the People's Republic of China will 
substantially promote the objectives of section 402 of the Act, and my 
reasons for such determination.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
May 29, 1997.

Note: This message was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on 
May 30.