Before China's WTO accession in 2001, China was already receiving the same market access as every other country through annual votes for Most Favored Nation (MFN) status, so they were already exporting to the US market at comparable rates; WTO membership therefore did not primarily grant them market access that they did not already have.
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Mike FromanEvidence Quote
“Long before China was a member of the WTO, they were getting the same access to the US market every year because every year we would apply uh we would vote for MFN status for China and they got the same access that every other country got um uh to the US. So they were already exporting to us at the time”
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