[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 46 (Monday, November 19, 2001)]
[Page 1635]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Taiwan's Accession to the World Trade Organization

November 9, 2001

Memorandum for the United States Trade Representative

Subject: Determinations under Section 1106(a) of the Omnibus Trade and 
Competitiveness Act of 1988--Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, 
Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu

    Section 1106(a) of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 
1988, (19 U.S.C. 2905(a)) (the ``1988 Act''), requires the President to 
determine for any major trading country that is acceding to the World 
Trade Organization (WTO) whether state trading enterprises account for a 
significant share of the exports of that major trading country or goods 
that compete with imports into that country and whether such state 
trading enterprises unduly burden and restrict, or adversely affect, the 
foreign trade of the United States or the United States economy, or are 
likely to result in such a burden, restriction, or effect.
    Taiwan, known in the WTO as ``the Separate Customs Territory of 
Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu,'' is in the final stage of its 
accession to the WTO. Thus, pursuant to section 1106(a) of the 1988 Act, 
I determine that state trading enterprises do not account for a 
significant share of the exports of the Separate Customs Territory of 
Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu or of goods that compete with exports 
to the Separate Customs Territory. Further, I determine that such state 
trading enterprises do not unduly burden and restrict, or adversely 
affect, the foreign trade of the United States or the United States 
economy, and are not likely to result in such a burden, restriction, or 
effect.
    You are directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., November 14, 
2001]

Note: This memorandum was published in the Federal Register on November 
15. This item was not received in time for publication in the 
appropriate issue.