That is the number of Republicans who voted for annual renewal of China's trade status last year.
It would end the annual ritual of reviewing Beijing's trade status and guarantee Chinese goods the same low-tariff access to U.S. markets that most other nations enjoy.
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Not only because of its reserve currency and trade status, but the euro must survive because it is one of the few things that actually keeps Europe united.
The keys to keeping them valuable are permanent normal trade status and admission of China into the World Trade Organization, whose cumbersome procedures can keep the American market wide open.
"I think Dick Gephardt has made a real error in calculating his possibilities for the year 2000 if that's what he's doing, " Kemp said, referring to Gephardt's recent attacks on the budget deal and extending most-favored-nation trade status to China.
The risk with making your rebellion too extroverted is that you trade one status quo for another.
And I emphasized my priority of having Congress repeal Jackson-Vanik, provide permanent trade relations status to Russia so that American businesses can take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities now that Russia is a member of the WTO.
Mr. Bush has also promised to clear the way for permanent normal trade relations status for Russia by getting the 1974 Jackson-Vanik Amendment formally repealed and to use his influence to secure membership for a free-market Russian economy.
It secures normal-trade-relations status for Vietnam, lowering tariffs on its exports to America from an average of 40% to less than 3%.
Like forgeries, they trade on borrowed status.
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However, the real estate professional special rules that apply when rental activities are aggregated to achieve material participation status suggest trade or business treatment.
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He bought up hedge fund Amaranth Advisors' losing positions in natural gas in 2006 in the trade that propelled him to billionaire status.
While under when-issued status, the stocks will trade with a V at the end of their symbols.
Delegates at the Cites meeting in Thailand rejected the proposal to change the bear's status from a species whose trade is regulated, not banned.
The Commissioner for EU Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule told MEPs that any future "enhanced status" for Tunisia on trade relations had to ensure greater protection of fundamental rights.
The dollar, thanks to its status as world reserve and trade currency, is making a comeback and over the last 12 months has weakened only against the Japanese Yen when compared to major currencies around the world.
For most of the Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912), Kinmen had grown wealthy with trade, and clan competed with clan to display status via their homes.
After years of carrot-and-stick games with trade terms, the US has finally granted China permanent status as a normal trading partner.
The House votes Wednesday on granting China the PNTR status, which would drop a variety of trade barriers between China and the United States.
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If not, would the United States support a bid by the Baltic states to obtain observer status at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
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The Center for Security Policy noted today that the United States has officially dropped its major precondition concerning Soviet observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Repudiation of the Bush Administration's recent concession to Moscow whereby the Soviet Union can obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) even before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
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The Bush Administration should at once repudiate its recent concession to Moscow which would permit the Soviet Union to obtain observer status in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) before the Kremlin adopts price reform and other market practices needed to make its economy more compatible with the GATT system.
Pakistan is unpicking official barriers to trade, after last year offering most-favoured nation trading status to India (reciprocating India's 1996 offer).
And the Confederation of British Industry lobby group is pressing for Britain to keep its place and status within the European Union, to push for freer trade.
They insist any rejection or doubt of the GM-free status of Indian rice in the global market could threaten their trade.
The investor attained billionaire status in 2007 with what has been described as the greatest trade of all time when he shorted subprime securities.
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Beaumaris' chamber of trade and tourism is also opposing Mr Mattocks' application for village green status, arguing that there is no sound historical basis for it.
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More broadly, in the United States, for example, the dollar made artificially expensive by capital inflows related in part to its reserve currency status has prevented the exchange rate adjustment needed to balance our trade in goods and services.
In other words, the logic seems to be that absent the asymmetries in spending between environmentalists and industry groups with a stake in the status quo, the failure to adopt policies like cap and trade could be interpreted as inherent weaknesses in the policies themselves.
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