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The Jackson-Vanik Amendment and Candidate Countries for WTO Accession: Issues for Congress

Categories: Communism,Foreign Trade/Investment,Treaties

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS22398.pdf

Considers whether former Communist countries which are now candidates for membership in  the World Trade Organization will be subject to the Jackson-Vanik Amendment which required countries to fulfill freedom of emigration conditions before they could receive normal trade relations status with the U.S.    From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists