Bush said he wanted to extend China's favorable trading status for a year despite misgivings about its human rights record.

Congress now conducts an annual review of China's trading status.

Lead and zinc were soon added but only gained official trading status in 1920.

He has voted both for and against granting China normal trading status.

After that moment, there was no question of anyone else getting most-favored trading status with the Lacu'un, ever.

The Senate is also considered likely to approve normal trading status for China.

I hear Pakistan has given most favored nation trading status to India.

Human rights groups are fighting against the renewal of China's trading status, while key lawmakers support it.

That measure was a compromise between the advocates and opponents of China's preferred trading status.

This activism began a few years ago, during the debate over whether to continue China's most-favored-nation trading status.