Some Current Issues in U.S.-China Trade Relations

Issues and Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 62-84

  Yang, Jiawen ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hong Kong's trade; Most favored nation (MFN); Taiwan's trade; U.S. China trade issues; World Trade Organization (WTO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010250993     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (42)

1. Gary Klintworth, New Taiwan, New China: Taiwan's Changing Role in the Asia-Pacific Region (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), 180.
2. Ibid.
3. The concentration ratios are calculated as ratios of the export values of respective products to the total value of principal exports. See Taiwan Statistical Data Book 1995 for sources of data.
4. Jay Etta Hecker, "International Trade: Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Businesses in China" (Testimony Before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, House of Representatives, U.S. General Accounting Office, July 29, 1996), 2. Information till the end of this paragraph is from the same source.
5. Jiawen Yang, "Ethnic Network and Investment Size: The Case of Taiwan," in Business Research Yearbook, ed. Jerry Biberman and Abbass Alkhafaji, vol. 4 (April 1997): 439-43.
6. "United States-China Act of 1991," Congressional Digest: The Pro and Con Monthly, October 1991, 225.
7. Restructuring U.S.-China Trade Relations: Advancing American Interests (Washington, D.C.: Business Coalition for U.S.-China Trade, March 1997), 15.
8. Gregory J. Mastel, China and the WTO: Economy at the Crossroad (Washington, D.C.: Economic Strategy Institute, November 1994), 35.
9. See an article carried on the web page of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C.: "Backgrounder: Sino-American Commercial Relationship and MFN" (1997), at http://www.china-embassy.org/Cgi-Bin/Press.pl? 87.
10. Alexander Nicoll, "Singapore's PM Warns U.S. over China," Financial Times, April 21, 1994.
11. Jeffrey Koo, "MFN for China is Also Good for Taiwan," The Wall Street Journal, May 7, 1996.
12. Restructuring U.S.-China Trade Relations, 19.
13. Ibid., 16.
14. Ibid., 10.
15. Ibid., 1.
16. Mastel, China and the WTO, 39.
17. Ibid.
18. Guy de Jonquieres, "Japan Relaxes Conditions for Chinese Entry to WTO," Financial Times, September 15, 1997.
19. Guy de Jonquieres, "China Offers to Liberalise Services Market," ibid., October 10, 1997.
20. Guy de Jonquieres, "Ruggiero in Plea on China's WTO Entry," ibid., October 20, 1995.
21. Tony Walker, "China Accuses Washington of Blocking Its WTO Entry," ibid., October 18, 1995.
22. Nancy Dunne, "Congress Seeks to End China Trade Status Battle," ibid., November 5, 1997.
23. Mastel, China and the WTO, 31.
24. Ibid.
25. Nicholas R. Lardy, "China and the WTO," Brookings Policy Brief (The Brookings Institution), no. 10 (November 1996).
26. Ibid.
27. Guy de Jonquieres, "Beijing Urged to Speed Tariff Cuts," Financial Times, December 1, 1997.
28. See note 22 above.
29. Peter Truell, "The Outlook: Trading Places in Global Commerce," The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1989.
30. Robert Greenberger, "Software Theft Extends Well Beyond China," ibid., May 20, 1996.
31. Ibid.
32. See note 4 above.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. See note 25 above.
36. Nicholas R. Lardy and Scott Kennedy, "China's No Renegade Mercantilist Trader," The Asian Wall Street Journal, February 7, 1996.
37. Kathy Chen, "Beijing May Order Boeing Jets," The Wall Street Journal, October 9, 1997.
38. See note 25 above.
39. Nicholas R, Lardy, "Normalizing Economic Relations with China" (Testimony Before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, May 22, 1997).
40. See note 25 above.
41. See note 12 above.
42. James Harding, "China Urges End to High-Tech Ban," Financial Times, October 18, 1997.