So no one really cared. Then in 1974 we passed what is known as the JacksonVanik amendment. It said that Communist countries can get MFN if they will allow free emigration or if extending mostfavorednation status to them would substantially promote free emigration. It was very clearly. at that stage. aimed at the Eastern European countries who would not allow Jewish emigration. You had a pentup demand of Jewish citizens in the Soviet Union and in the other Eastern bloc countries who wanted out. but these people were not permitted to emigrate. So it was a carrot. We said all right. you are a Communist country. You do not get mostfavorednation status but if you will let people freely emigrate. then you can get it. And to date that has been the standard that we have adhered to. If a country will let its people out. we will give them mostfavorednation status.
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