The main controversy with the United States and China's international trade practices has nothing to do with trade itself. It has to do with the United States government continuing to extended the status of "Most Favored Nation Trading Privileges" to China, despite their continuing human rights violations. This has little to no effect of the actual trade relations between the two countries. It mainly has

One of the major problems with the trade relations between the United States and China is that there is a huge trade deficit between the two countries. As of June 1997 the trade gap was $4.7 billion between the countries. This number surpassed the trade deficit between the United States and Japan for the first time in history. Economists predict that the U.S. deficit with Japan will continue to fall, but the deficit with China will grow. The Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor said, "And it is a result of unfair practice on the part of China - not only the piracy of U.S. products but also keeping U.S. products out of the Chinese market." Other countries like the United States blames the trade deficit on limited market access. This is because of China's lack of progress into the WTO. Beijing has led a 12-year campaign to en

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