[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 6 (Monday, February 9, 1998)]
[Pages 176-177]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Renewal of the China-United States Trade Agreement

January 30, 1998

Presidential Determination No. 98-13

Memorandum for the United States Trade Representative

Subject: Renewal of Trade Agreement with the People's Republic of China

    Pursuant to my authority under subsection 405(b)(1)(B) of the Trade 
Act of 1974 (19

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U.S.C. 2435(b)(1)(B)), I have determined that actual or foreseeable 
reductions in United States tariffs and nontariff barriers to trade 
resulting from multilateral negotiations are being satisfactorily 
reciprocated by the People's Republic of China. I have further found 
that a satisfactory balance of concessions in trade and services has 
been maintained during the life of the Agreement on Trade Relations 
between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China.
    You are authorized and directed to publish this determination in the 
Federal Register.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:36 a.m., February 3, 
1998]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on February 
4. This item was not received in time for publication in the appropriate 
issue.