{ "id": "RL31910", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL31910", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 312107, "date": "2006-02-01", "retrieved": "2016-04-07T19:16:05.003029", "title": "China: Economic Sanctions", "summary": "The United States currently maintains the following economic sanctions against China:\n limits on U.S. foreign assistance; \n U.S. \u201cNo\u201d votes or abstention in the international banks; \n ban on Overseas Private Investment Corporation\nprograms; \n ban on export of defense articles or defense services; \n ban on import of munitions or ammunition; \n ban on procurement of goods and services listed on the munitions list in the\nInternational Trafficking in Arms Regulations; \n denial of Generalized System of Preferences status; \n substantial export controls on dual-use items, particularly satellites, nuclear\ntechnology, and computers; \n suspension of export licenses for crime control and detection instruments and\nequipment; \n export and licensing restrictions on targeted entities found to have engaged in\nproliferation of missiles and weapons of mass destruction (or related technology);\nand \n Presidential authority to restrict Chinese military companies and Chinese\ngovernment-affiliated businesses from developing commercial activities inside the United\nStates. \n \n Human rights conditions in China and the threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction\nresulting from China\u2019s lack of export controls or lack of cooperation with international\nexport\ncontrol standards continue to be the main foreign policy or national security issues that hold these\neconomic restrictions in place.\n \n The influence of Congress on U.S. policy toward China, once significant because so much hung\non the annual possibility that favorable trade terms could be suspended, has more recently been\ndiffused. Sanctions that remain in place today can all be modified, eased, or lifted altogether by the\nPresident, without congressional input (though some changes would require that the President notify\nCongress). Congress and the Administration each recognize the importance of China\u2019s\nemerging\nability to consume and to produce, and China has become an increasingly important trading partner\nof the United States. Several recent national security developments -- North Korea\u2019s pursuit\nof\nnuclear weapons and crises brought before the United Nations Security Council -- have strained\nU.S.-China political relations. China, as North Korea\u2019s benefactor and primary trading\npartner, is\nthe power most likely to keep that country at the bargaining table over its nuclear intentions. In the\nU.N. Security Council, both the United States and China, as permanent members, have the ability\nto block any proposed action. China has emerged as a contrarian when economic sanctions might\nbe considered in the Security Council. \n \n This paper will be updated as events warrant.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": false, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL31910", "sha1": "38ca8ecff954011eb2496815fa55801be148c34d", "filename": "files/20060201_RL31910_38ca8ecff954011eb2496815fa55801be148c34d.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL31910", "sha1": "f3ca0243a2be392bc70c8b045dde5482212a3a76", "filename": "files/20060201_RL31910_f3ca0243a2be392bc70c8b045dde5482212a3a76.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [] }, { "source": "University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "sourceLink": "https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs7269/", "id": "RL31910 2005-05-18", "date": "2005-05-18", "retrieved": "2005-09-27T13:47:07", "title": "China: Economic Sanctions", "summary": "This report discusses a list of economic sanctions that the United States currently maintains against China. 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