Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 77 — United States-China Relations
§ 6991. Accession of Taiwan to the WTO
Statutory text
It is the sense of the Congress that—
immediately upon approval by the General Council of the WTO of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO, the United States representative to the WTO should request that the General Council of the WTO consider Taiwan’s accession to the WTO as the next order of business of the Council during the same session; and
the United States should be prepared to aggressively counter any effort by any WTO member, upon the approval of the General Council of the WTO of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO, to block the accession of Taiwan to the WTO.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 106–286 div. B title VI § 601 · 114 Stat. 880
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6991
(Pub. L. 106–286, div. B, title VI, § 601, Oct. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 906.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–286, div. B, title VI, § 601, Oct. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 906.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 601. ACCESSION OF TAIWAN TO THE WTO. It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) immediately upon approval by the General Council of the WTO of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO, the United States representative to the WTO should request that the General Council of the WTO consider Taiwan’s accession to the WTO as the next order of business of the Council during the same session; and (2) the United States should be prepared to aggressively counter any effort by any WTO member, upon the approval of the General Council of the WTO of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the WTO, to block the accession of Taiwan to the WTO.
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Credits
(Pub. L. 106–286, div. B, title VI, § 601, , 114 Stat. 906.)