PNTR cleared its major hurdle when the House approved it last May, 237-197. Expanding American access to global markets is the smart thing to do, because when Americans compete, we win. By providing PNTR to China, America gets the same access that our competitors get. America s world class technology sector, farmers, businesses and workers will be able to sell their products and ideas in China s growing markets.
Trade is a good bet to speed up the pace of effective reforms throughout society.
A leading Congressional free trade advocate, Dreier has led the annual whip effort on China trade for the last seven years. Dreier said PNTR would be remembered as a historic bipartisan trade and foreign policy achievement, and he praised Congress and the President for enacting a signature Republican goal - free trade which helps expand economic freedom and personal liberty throughout the world.