es in each bilateral deal. Also this group sets up a timetable that a country wishing to gain membership into the WTO has to implement the provisions. Last the 135 member countries of the WTO, vote on the prospective countries membership to the WTO and if the members vote "yes" by a two-thirds majority then a country gains admittance" (Nitschke 609). The Jackson-Vanik amendment that allows for the annual renewal of normal trade status to China, was a "limit that was set under a provision in the 1974 Trade Act written by Sen. Henry M. Jackson D-Wash., and Rep. Charles A. Vanik, D-Ohio, that requires the president to certify every year that certain communist nations are allowing unfettered emigration before giving them regular trade standing" (Nitschke 608).There are three different foreign policies that can be considered and adopted. The three different policy positions are to grant normal trade status to China as it enters the world Trade Organization without concessions or special conditions that have to be met, to uphold the Jackson-Vanik Amendments, thus having the president review the possible annually of granting normal trade status to China, or to grant normal trade status to China based on reaching concessions. The different concessions would range from opening all markets to the United States and its corporations within a year to providing evidence that workers will not be used adversely in the production of Chinese goods and products. The first policy option that will be analyzed and discussed is one, which would instill normal trade relations with China without allowing for concessions. "The economic case for granting permanent normal trade relations to China, is unassailable. Under the able and indefatigable leadership of the United States' Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, the deal the Clinton Administration struck with China to gain our support for its admission to the WTO is manifestly in the United States' economi...
