Key Government Documents

U.S. Relations With the People's Republic of China (2008)

Diplomatic Relations

U.S. Embassy Beijing

• U.S. Embassy Beijing Home Page
• U.S. Consulates in China
  • U.S. Consulate General Chengdu
  • U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou
  • U.S. Consulate General Shanghai
  • U.S. Consulate General Shenyang
  • U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong
• Chiefs of Mission

White House

• White House Daily Briefings (2008)
• Text of a Letter From the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate (8/28/2008)
• Interview of the President by Bob Costas, NBC Sports (8/11/2008)
• Interview of the First Lady by Ann Curry, NBC's Today Show (8/11/2008)
• President and Mrs. Bush Attend Church Services in Beijing (8/10/2008)
• President Bush Meets With President Hu Jintao of the People's Republic of China (8/10/2008)
• President Bush Meets With Vice President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China (8/10/2008)
• President Bush Meets With Premier Wen Jiabao of the People's Republic of China (8/10/2008)
• President's Radio Address (8/9/2008)
• President Bush Concerned by Escalation of Violence in Georgia (8/9/2008)
• President Bush Attends Dedication of United States Embassy Beijing (8/8/2008)
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State Department

• State Department Daily Briefings (2008)
• Remarks by Ambassador Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative, on the Situation in Georgia, at the Security Council Stakeout (8/28/2008)
• Remarks With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - Secretary Condoleezza Rice (8/26/2008)
• Fighting for Worldwide Internet Freedom (8/14/2008)
• U.S. and Japan: A Joint Approach to South and Central Asia - Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs (8/8/2008)
• Remarks by Ambassador Alejandro Wolff, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative, on Iraq, Sudan, Iran, and Mauritania, at the Security Council Stakeout (8/6/2008)
• Interview With Mike Allen of The Politico and Yahoo! News - Secretary Condoleezza Rice (8/6/2008)
• Remarks With Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson - Secretary Condoleezza Rice (8/2/2008)
• Interview With Jenna Wolfe of the Sunday Edition of NBC News - Secretary Condoleezza Rice (8/2/2008)
• Interview With Mitzi Rapkin of Aspen Public Radio - Secretary Condoleezza Rice (8/2/2008)
• North Korean Six-Party Talks and Implementation Activities - Christopher R. Hill, Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (7/31/2008)
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Others

• Children's Hooded Sweatshirts and Jackets With Drawstrings Recalled by Orioxi International Due to Strangulation Hazard - Release #08-379 (8/28/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• IMS Recalls Car Chargers Used With Halogen Spotlights Sold at Sears and K-Mart Due to Fire and Burn Hazards - Release #08-374 (8/26/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• Coffee Makers Recalled by Sears Due to Fire and Burn Hazards - Release #08-372 (8/26/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• Two Individuals and Two Companies Pleaded Guilty to Counterfeit Toothpaste Trafficking - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (8/22/2008)
• Power Light Modules Recalled by GCI Technologies Due to Fire and Burn Hazards - Release #08-371 (8/22/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• Two Individuals Plead Guilty to Trafficking in More Than Half a Million Tubes of Counterfeit Toothpaste - Department of Justice (8/21/2008)
• All 3 owners/operators of Asian massage parlors plead guilty to coercing prostitution, money laundering, and identity theft - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (8/21/2008)
• Tennessee Technology Company Pleads Guilty to Arms Export Control Act Violations - Department of Justice (8/20/2008)
• Cervélo SA Recalls Bicycle Forks Due to Fall Hazard - Release #08-368 (8/20/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
• Steam Cleaners Recalled by Thane International Due to Burn Hazard - Alert #08-601 (8/20/2008) (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
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Documents

• U.S.-PRC Joint Communiques
• Foreign Relations of the United States (by Department of State - Office of the Historian)

Human Rights

• Advancing Freedom and Democracy Reports - 2008: China (Includes Tibet) (5/23/2008)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007: China (Includes Tibet) (3/11/2008)
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2007: Introduction (3/11/2008)
• Remarks on the State Department's 2007 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Jonathan Farrar, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (3/11/2008)

Trade and Investments

General

• Department of Commerce

• U.S. Commerce Assistant Secretary David Bohigian Announces 19 U.S. Clean Energy and Environmental Companies Will Join Trade Misison to China and India (8/28/2008)
• U.S. Department of Commerce Preliminarily Finds Dumping of Stainless Pressure Pipe From China (8/28/2008)
• Fact Sheet: Commerce Preliminarily Finds Dumping on Circular Welded Austenitic Stainless Pressure Pipe From the People's Republic of China (8/28/2008) (PDF file, 70 KB)*
• [A-428-841, A-570-925] Sodium Nitrite From the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China: Antidumping Duty Orders (Dated: August 21, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 167, Notices (8/27/2008) (PDF file, 49 KB)*
• [C-570-926] Sodium Nitrite From the People's Republic of China: Countervailing Duty Order (Dated: August 22, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 167, Notices (8/27/2008) (PDF file, 48 KB)*
• [A-570-941] Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks From the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Antidumping Duty Investigation (Dated: August 20, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 167, Notices (8/27/2008) (PDF file, 70 KB)*
• [C-570-942] Notice of Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation: Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks from the People's Republic of China (Dated: August 20, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 166, Notices (8/26/2008) (PDF file, 61 KB)*
• [C-570-940] Certain Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers and Certain Parts Thereof From the People's Republic of China: Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty Investigation (Dated: August 20, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 166, Notices (8/26/2008) (PDF file, 50 KB)*
• [A-570-890] Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the People's Republic of China: Notice of Partial Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (Dated: August 18, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 165, Notices (8/25/2008) (PDF file, 61 KB)*
• [C-570-827] Certain Cased Pencils From the People's Republic of China: Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty Administrative Review (Dated: August 18, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 165, Notices (8/25/2008) (PDF file, 52 KB)*
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• USTR

• U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez Announce 25th Anniversary Meeting of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (8/15/2008) (PDF file, 21 KB)*
• Press Briefing With U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab (7/21/2008)
• WTO Panel Finds Against China's Taxation of U.S. Auto Parts (7/18/2008) (PDF file, 20 KB)*
• Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, USTR - Doha Media Roundtable (7/17/2008)
• Remarks by Ambassador Susan Schwab to 2008 African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum (7/15/2008)
• Notice of Public Oral Hearing Before the WTO Appellate Body in the Dispute: United States - Continued Suspension of Obligations in the EC - Hormones Dispute (WT/DS 320) (7/11/2008)
• Seventh Report to the Leaders on the U.S.-Japan Regulatory Reform and Competition Policy Initiative (7/5/2008)
• Statement From USTR Susan C. Schwab on the Issuing of the Korea Beef Protocol (6/25/2008) (PDF file, 18 KB)*
• Trade Facts: United States Launches Negotiations of an Investment Treaty With China (6/18/2008) (PDF file, 24 KB)*
• The U.S. Trade Agenda - Remarks by Ambassador Susan Schwab, United States Trade Representative - Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC (5/6/2008)
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• Department of Agriculture

• Who Will China Feed? - Amber Waves, June 2008 (published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service) (PDF file, 467 KB)*
• Importation of Uncooked Pork and Pork Products - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 73, Corrections (4/15/2008) (PDF file, 35 KB)*
• Importation of Uncooked Pork and Pork Products - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Department of Agriculture - Federal Register: Vol. 73, No. 64, Rules and Regulations (4/2/2008) (PDF file, 75 KB)*
• Transcript of Remarks by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer to the National Cotton Council Annual Meeting (2/9/2008)
• Remarks by THE HON. ED SCHAFER, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture - Delivered at the National Cattlemen's Beef Association Annual Convention & Trade Show (2/8/2008)

• Others

• Sodium Nitrite From China and Germany - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: August 20, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 166, Notices (8/26/2008) (PDF file, 46 KB)*
• Uncovered Innerspring Units From China, South Africa, and Vietnam - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: August 15, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 162, Notices (8/20/2008) (PDF file, 58 KB)*
• Sodium Nitrite From China and Germany Injures U.S. Industry, Says ITC (8/11/2008)
• The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) Votes to Continue Cases on Certain Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers and Parts Thereof From China (8/7/2008)
• Certain Kitchen Appliance Shelving and Racks From China - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: August 1, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 153, Notices (8/7/2008) (PDF file, 54 KB)*
• U.S. International Trade Commission Releases The Year in Trade 2007 (8/4/2008)
• The Year in Trade 2007 - Operation of the Trade Agreements Program - 59th Report (USITC Publication 4026, July 2008) - United States International Trade Commission (8/4/2008) (PDF file, 2.95 MB)*
• Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe and Tube From China, Korea, and Mexico - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: July 28, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 150, Notices (8/4/2008) (PDF file, 51 KB)*
• Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate From China, Russia, and Ukraine - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: July 21, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 149, Notices (8/1/2008) (PDF file, 57 KB)*
• Non-Malleable Cast Iron Pipe Fittings From China - United States International Trade Commission (Issued: July 24, 2008) - Federal Register, Vol. 73, No. 149, Notices (8/1/2008) (PDF file, 49 KB)*
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Special Reports

• Bush Administration Submits Annual Trade Report to Congress - United States Trade Representative (3/28/2008)
• 2008 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE): China (3/28/2008) (PDF file, 315 KB)*
• 2008 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE): Appendix - US Data for Given Trade Partners in Rank Order of US Goods Exports (3/28/2008) (PDF file, 406 KB)*
• Doing Business In China: A Country Commercial Guide for U.S. Companies (2/27/2008) (PDF file, 945 KB)*

Intellectual Property Rights (Special 301)

• USTR Issues 2008 Special 301 Report (4/25/2008)
• 2008 Special 301 Report (4/25/2008) (PDF file, 180 KB)*

Narcotics Control

• National Drug Control Strategy 2008 Annual Report (3/1/2008)
• The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report - Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control - Southeast Asia - China, March 2008 (2/29/2008)
• The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report - Volume I: Drug and Chemical Control - Chemical Controls - China, March 2008 (2/29/2008)
• The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report - Volume II: Money Laundering and Financial Crimes - Country Reports - People's Republic of China, March 2008 (2/29/2008)
• Archives

Trafficking in Persons Report

• Trafficking in Persons Report - Country Narratives - China (Tier 2 Watch List) (6/4/2008)
• Briefing on the Release of the Eighth Annual Trafficking in Persons Report (6/4/2008)
• Trafficking in Persons Interim Assessment - China (2/28/2008)

General Information

 

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