China Trade Bill Passes.

Americans buy billions of Chinese products each year. Now the U.S. Congress has voted to make China a permanent trading partner.

Until now, Congress voted each year whether to give China the lower tariffs This is a list of tariffs and trade legislation:

List of tariffs in Canada
List of tariffs in United States
List of tariffs in India
List of tariffs in China
List of tariffs in Russia

(trading fees) that most other nations enjoy. Some members of Congress opposed permanent trading rights because of China's human rights record. Labor unions labor union: see union, labor. argued that U.S. factory workers lose jobs when consumers buy products from China (see September 4 JS, p. 14).

But other Americans said that giving China permanent trading rights will benefit both countries. "We will find, I believe," President Clinton said, "that America has more influence in China with an outstretched out·stretch
tr.v. out·stretched, out·stretch·ing, out·stretch·es
To stretch out; extend.

outstretched
Adjective hand than with a clenched clench
tr.v. clenched, clench·ing, clench·es
1. To close tightly: clench one's teeth; clenched my fists in anger.

2. fist."

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Title Annotation:	China voted in as permanent U.S. trading partner
Publication:	Junior Scholastic
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Date:	Oct 30, 2000
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