11.   Diplomatic ties, they argue, could pave the way toward preferential trade status and U.S. Export Import Bank resources.

12.   Dole has voted several times in favor of extending preferential trade benefits to China despite its poor human rights record.

13.   He and several Caribbean leaders criticized U.S. pressure to end preferential trade without giving the island nations time to convert their production to other, more competitive products.

14.   Members of Congress have proposed cutting off the preferential trade treatment it gives China, which exports more to the United States than it imports from it.

15.   On substantive issues, Sasser disavowed his past Senate votes to link preferential trade benefits to China to its human rights performance.

16.   Slattery said the U.S. government would go along with a phased-in process of reducing the preferential trade policies.

17.   Some U.S. lawmakers say sales of this kind, along with alleged human rights abuses in China, are sufficient reason to deny preferential trade rights to China.

18.   Viewed by the administration as a critical tool for the rebuilding of Central America, Caribbean countries already received certain preferential trade privileges under the terms of the CBI.

19.   Only then could it be exported for cutting and sewing and shipped back under preferential trade rules.

20.   Only then could it be exported for cutting and shipped back under preferential trade rules.