February 22, 2007 – Senate lawmakers have introduced legislation that would rescind Permanent Normal Trade Relations status granted to China in 2000.
"Since 2001, the first year China operated with PNTR status, our trade deficit with China ballooned from $83 billion a year to well over $232.5 billion in 2006," Senator Byron Dorgan said. "It's not difficult to see why. China has engaged in systematic labor abuses, intellectual property theft and piracy, currency manipulation and unfair barriers against U.S. exports.”
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