HR 2468 · 102th Congress · Foreign Trade and International Finance
Regarding the extension of most-favored-nation treatment to the products of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.
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EnactedLatest: See H.R.2212.(1991-07-10)
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Prohibits the President from recommending for a 12-month period in 1992 continuation of a waiver of human rights and emigration requirements for nondiscriminatory treatment (most-favored-nation treatment) for China under the Trade Act of 1974 unless a specified report is submitted to the Congress stating that China has accounted for and released prisoners who dissented in Tiananmen Square on June 3, 1989, and made progress in: (1) reversing gross violations of human rights; (2) terminating religious persecution in China and Tibet; (3) removing restrictions on freedom of the press and on broadcasts by the Voice of America; (4) terminating harassment of Chinese citizens in the United States, including the refusal to return or renew passports as retribution for prodemocracy activities; (5) ensuring access of international human rights monitoring groups to prisoners; (6) ensuring freedom from torture and inhumane prison conditions; (7) terminating prohibitions on peaceful demonstrations; (8) prohibiting forced labor in the production of exports; and (9) taking other action to promote improvement in the observance of internationally recognized human rights. Requires the President, in de…
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