most-favored-nation [法] 最惠国
most-favored-nation[ adj ]
of or relating to a commercial treaty where two nations agree to accord each other the same favorable terms that would be offered in treaties with any other nation
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- The expected decision to renew Beijing's most-favored-nation status drew advance criticism from Democrats.
- Before renewing most-favored-nation status next year, the bill would require the president to consider whether the Beijing government has made significant progress in several areas.
- The nation's swing toward democracy is seen as increasing the chances the United States will grant most-favored-nation trade status to the Soviet Union, which could lead to bigger grain deals with the United States.
- U.S.-Chinese commercial relations warmed somewhat on May 24, when President Bush extended China's most-favored-nation trading status for a year.
- Chinese officials did not immediately comment on Bush's announcement extending China's most-favored-nation trade status for one year.
- Hungary, a communist nation in the Warsaw Pact, will clearly meet the criteria for a new extension of its most-favored-nation status, which presidents have renewed annually over the past decade, he said.
- The absence of most-favored-nation status is a convenient excuse for the current low level of Soviet exports to this country, but it is not likely the numbers would jump dramatically were most-favored-nation status granted.
- The absence of most-favored-nation status is a convenient excuse for the current low level of Soviet exports to this country, but it is not likely the numbers would jump dramatically were most-favored-nation status granted.
- "The conditions embodied in her bill make it tantamount to a rejection of most-favored-nation status," said House Minority Leader Robert Michel (R., Ill.).
- But Mitchell did not disagree when Gorbachev noted that President Bush has been inconsistent by granting unconditional most-favored-nation status to China, which a year ago brutally crushed a democracy movement.
- He signed a resolution, approved by Congress, that gives Sofia most-favored-nation trade status, allowing it to sell goods to the U.S. at the lowest possible tariffs.
- The Commerce Department announced today the United States is prepared to provide Hungary with a wide series of business and economic benefits, including permanent most-favored-nation trade status.
- The statement called for granting the Soviets most-favored-nation status, which would give them the same preferential tariffs given the United States' other top trading partners.
- Poland previously was granted most-favored-nation trading status by the United States, meaning its products qualified for the lower tariffs accorded U.S. allies.
- Supporters of extending the most-favored-nation status frequently cite China's connection to Hong Kong.
- The loss of most-favored-nation status would result in substantially higher tariffs on Chinese imports to the United States.
- Restoring the most-favored-nation and Caribbean Basin tariff preferences are part of identical packages approved Tuesday by House and Senate committees.
- Another cloud over exports concerns China's trade status with the U.S. Its most-favored-nation status expires early next month.
- China still retains most-favored-nation trade status with the United States, however, and calls have escalated in Congress for him to take sterner measures.
- A free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Japan boggles the traditional, most-favored-nation mind.
- In Budapest, Bush offered American help to Hungary as well, including a promise to seek most-favored-nation trading status, which would allow liberal terms for Hungarian exports, and a $25 million grant to spur the fledgling free-enterprise system.
- Under the policy, the U.S. denied trade advantages to the Soviet Union because of its expansionist adventures, while rewarding Romania with most-favored-nation tariff treatment for playing the maverick.
- The new designation allows many of those same goods to enter the country without paying the tariffs charged developed countries on the most-favored-nation list.
- President Bush, responding to spreading political liberalization in Eastern Europe, said Hungary will receive permanent most-favored-nation trade status and cited "encouraging signs" that eventually might help the Soviet Union win similar status.
- Bush extended most-favored-nation trade privileges to Hungary, saying it had honored its pledge of political and economic restructuring.
- Despite the threat of a confrontation with Congress, senior administration officials said Bush would propose a one-year extension of the most-favored-nation preferential tariff treatment for China.
- But the White House plan to extend similar most-favored-nation treatment to imports from the Soviet Union apparently won't be considered by the U.S. Congress until next year.
- In May, responding to urgent appeals from Beijing, he extended for a year what is called most-favored-nation status.
- Current law bars most-favored-nation status to communist countries with restrictive emigration policies.
- He also said that if Washington withdraws China's most-favored-nation trade status, the two nations' relations will be seriously damaged.