Number: RS20139
Title: China and the World Trade Organization
Authors: Wayne Morrison, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division 
Abstract: China's WTO membership (as well as that of Taiwan's) was formally approved in November 2001. Accession commits China to significantly reduce a wide variety of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Legislation (H.R. 4444) granting China permanent normal trade relations status (once it joins the WTO) was enacted into law on October 10, 2000 (P.L. 106-286). A main concern for Congress is to ensure that China fully complies with its WTO commitments.
Pages: 6
Date: August 3, 2004