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I will proceed down that path in the course of this debate and in the course of this discussion now. It was important. we thought. for the Chinese Government to understand that extending mostfavorednation status to China. a centralized economy. a close economy. a Communist system. is only allowed in our law if there is a special waiver requested by the President. unless exception is made. As the Members know. we have not extended mostfavorednation status to the Soviet Union unless they make certain codifications in their law of the freedom of people to emigrate from that closed society. from the Communist system. History tells a tale that I do not need to go into now about how the democratic reform has succeeded in the Soviet Union but still our President. and rightfully so. says that in order for those people to have economic advantages from the United States. prodemocratic reform must continue and. again. I make the point that the Soviet Union had to live up to certain conditions in our law before it could receive mostfavorednation status as a centralized economy to dispel the notion that people say that everybody has MFN.