The result must address the major barriers to American exports in goods, services and agriculture. And it must do so in a detailed, enforceable and rapid way. I prefer detailed, measurable and enforceable commitments. To this task we have brought some lessons learned elsewhere. We are also working with Russia, Ukraine, the Indochinese nations and others.
China is by far the largest such economy and is unique in many ways.
So, by the way, do the lessons for the acceding countries. The successful applicants thus far have made commercially meaningful commitments in all areas, and found them immensely beneficial for their own domestic reform efforts. Thus we rejected attempts by China to win a political accession at the creation of the WTO in 1995 and before the Presidential Summits in 1997 and 1998. We are committed to commercially meaningful principles in the issues that remain. But while we have not yet reached agreement on such a package, in the past months we have made very significant progress toward the goal.