The people who bear such taxes are never the governments who impose them, they are taxpayers and businesses who rely on traded goods and services for their economic well being. Normalizing America's trade relations with China will benefit American producers and consumers. It will allow them to reap the benefits of open markets, with lower prices, more job creation in the export sector and higher economic growth. China will benefit in more than economic terms. Greater exposure to American goods and services will add to the tremendous social change already being experienced in that country.
Free markets help create free minds.
ATR also announced that it will score the vote on PNTR with China in its 2000 Congressional ratings. ATR is coalition of individuals, taxpayer groups and businesses concerned with tax policy, spending reduction, and restoring accountability to elected officials.