t for agricultural exports form the United States- it bought 1 billion in United States commodities in fiscal 1999- and the Chinese market should open much further under the trade deal reached last year between Washington and Beijing" (Nitschke 445). Examples of tariff reductions are " a decrease in beef from 45% to 12%, a decrease in pork from 20% to 12%, a decrease in poultry from 20% to 10%, and also a decrease in citrus from 40% to 12%. All of this will occur by the year 2004 marking a great stride in US-Chinese trade relations (Nitschke 445). Also what could possible be the greatest positive factor is that Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman "estimates that US farm exports would triple to 3 billion annually, if congress endorsed the permanent normal trade relations with China" (Nitschke 447). Negative effects of installing normal trade relations with China are that the United States would lose an important bargaining tool, which allows us to influence the Chinese government because they want the Most Favored Nation status annually. Some aspects of world affairs that the US would not be able to influence the Chinese government are, in "Beijing's recent threats to use military force against Taiwan, and the Chinese governments human right's violations (Nitschke 552). Also other negative aspects of granting normal trade relations with China, as it enters the World trade Organization, are "that the China deal will encourage many American companies to move production operations to China and then export their goods to the United States. Unions said that this happened with the North American Free Trade Agreement, and they fear that's such an exodus of production would cause a loss of American jobs and increase the trade deficit with China, which is expected to exceed $60 billion this year"(Greenhouse 1). Also along with this, if American jobs are lost then some congressmen could be facing an uphill battle for reelection. This idea has led t...
