P.M. BRIEFING : GATT Again Rebuffs China
The United States and other Western countries today again rejected arguments by China that it is making the necessary economic reforms to join the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
China applied for GATT membership in early 1989 but then reversed a political and economic reform movement, which effectively put its request on hold.
At one of its infrequent meetings, a GATT working group on China heard new Chinese arguments today, rejected them as insufficient and agreed to meet again only next spring.
The officials demanded specific details of reform intentions, saying China has yet to prove it is moving from a state-controlled to a market economy as required to join GATT, the world’s free trade regulatory body.
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