date:Nov 18, 2013
members of Congress and threatened trade retaliation if the programme was not repealed.
Our government is unwilling to sit by as this programme is implemented, the trade officials wrote, adding that American exports of beef, soybeans and other goods to Vietnam could suffer as a result.
Chinese business leaders have also voiced their opposition to the programme. In an August 29 editorial in The Wall Street Journal, Bian Zhenhu, president of the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Exports o