1.   Although the trade status is called most favored nation, it allows China the same tariff treatment as most other nations trading with the United States.

2.   As Clinton noted, despite the name, the status does not provide special privileges but extends the same tariff treatment provided to almost all other nations.

3.   GSP is a framework under which developed countries give preferential tariff treatment to manufactured goods imported from certain developing countries.

4.   MFN gives preferable tariff treatment to imports, thereby making Chinese-made products easier to sell in the U.S.

5.   MFN gives preferable tariff treatment to imports, thereby making Chinese-made products easier to sell in the U. S.

6.   U.S. Trade Rep. Mickey Kantor said preferential tariff treatment for imports of some products from Pakistan should be suspended because of continued child labor abuses.

7.   Peru has lobbied for the U.S. Congress to ratify an accord that gives imports from Peru and three other Andean nations preferential tariff treatment in the United States.

8.   At the meeting the EU offered to eliminate all differential tariff treatment between the Lome Convention countries and all other LDCs.

9.   Bush also has pledged to push a trade bill through Congress that would grant preferential tariff treatment to imports from Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador.

10.   Bush supports renewing and expanding the act, which sets special tariff treatment for imports from those countries.