Sentence examples for normal trading rights from inspiring English sources
It could also crimp relations newly smoothed by the Senate's passage of a trade bill this week granting China permanent normal trading rights.
But China could then revoke normal trading rights for the United States, denying American businesses some trade benefits it grants other nations.
The Senate looks set to grant normal trading rights, but the vote in the House is still up for grabs, Congressional leaders and administration officials said.
The accord, if signed as scheduled, would allow President Clinton to claim yet another milestone in trade liberalization shortly after the House of Representatives granted China permanent normal trading rights, another of the administration's final remaining foreign policy priorities.
The impasse poses a particularly acute problem for Vice President Al Gore, who supported granting China permanent normal trading rights over vociferous objections from unions, environmentalists and other core political supporters.
Last year, the administration pledged to Beijing that it would work to grant it normal trading rights as part of a broader package that paves the way for China to join the World Trade Organization.
"But our system can look for outliers in normal trading patterns and flag them up right after the trading activity happens so clients can investigate them".
The administration has asked Congress to give up its annual review of China's trade status, granting it same trading rights -- called permanent normal trade relations -- that most other countries have.
China might argue that linkage is something it learned from the West, and the days when its normal trading ties with America were hostage to human-rights concerns.
Republican aides say the party will struggle to produce 150 votes in favor of permanent normal trade relations, the number that supported annual renewal of China's trading rights last year.
The flashpoint could be Congress's annual vote in June on renewing normal trading relations with China, which will be swayed by its human-rights record.
