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U.S./CHINA: TRADE ISSUES
1.
ON 8 MARCH I CALLED ON BOB TAYLOR (DIRECTOR FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, CHINA OFFICE, STATE).
IN PEKING AS PART OF THE U.S.
HE HAD JUST RETURNED FROM TWO WEEKS DELEGATION WHICH HELD TALKS WITH THE
CHINESE ON MARKET ACCESS, AND GATT.
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2. TAYLOR SAID THAT BOTH SETS OF TALKS HAD BEEN DISAPPOINTING. MARKET ACCESS, THE AMERICANS HAD PRESSED THE CHINESE TO GIVE SPECIFIC QUOTAS FOR 220 CATEGORIES OF U.S. IMPORTS (AS THEY HAD PROMISED TO DO IN THE MARKET ACCESS AGREEMENT LAST OCTOBER). THE CHINESE HAD SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT THE WAY THEY DID THINGS. THEY WERE PREPARED TO SET GLOBAL DOLLAR QUOTAS FOR IMPORTS, BUT NOT PREPARED TO SPECIFY AMOUNTS FOR PARTICULAR CATEGORIES. THE AMERICANS WERE SURPRISED GIVEN THAT THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD THAT THE CHINESE WERE PREPARED TO DO EXACTLY THIS IN NEGOTIATIONS ON THE MARKET ACCESS AGREEMENT.
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3. ON GATT, THE CHINESE SEEMED TO WALK SEVERAL STEPS BACK FROM EARLIER POSITIONS, CLAIMING THAT THEY HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED A (SOCIALIST) MARKET ECONOMY, AND DID NOT THEREFORE NEED TO TAKE ANY SPECIAL STEPS. NOR DID THEY SEE ANY NEED TO AGREE SAFEGUARDS FOR OTHER GATT MEMBERS (WHO MIGHT FEAR THAT CHINESE SUBSIDIES WOULD RESULT IN A FLOOD OF CHEAP CHINESE EXPORTS AFTER GATT ACCESSION).
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TAYLOR SAID THE CHINESE WERE UP TO. HAD BEEN NEGOTIATING
AMERICANS WERE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE
IT WAS POSSIBLE THAT MOFERT WITH WHOM THEY
HAD BEEN PERSUADED BY OTHER INTERNAL
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