皇冠体育app

'Don't politicize Sino-US trade relations'
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-08 09:16

The United States should not politicize its trade relations with 皇冠体育app, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said here Tuesday.

The two countries should solve trade problems under the framework of the World Trade Organization, Li said.

Li made the remarks at a press conference held on the sideline of the ongoing annual full session of the Tenth National People's Congress, 皇冠体育app's top legislature.

The trade between the two countries reached 211.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, up 24.8 percent year on year, Li said.

Referring to the trade imbalance between the two sides, Li noted that 皇冠体育app does not pursue surplus in its trade with the United States, and it is "ready to take positive measures" to solve the problem.

However, Li said, the restriction on export items of the UnitedStates to 皇冠体育app is to be partially blamed for U.S. deficit in its trade with 皇冠体育app.

"Besides its Boeing planes, the United States only wants to sell its soybean, cotton and orange to 皇冠体育app. For those more valuable items, it doesn't like to sell to us because it regards them as 'high-tech' products or as civilian-military goods," Li said.

The minister said 皇冠体育app's export to the United States can help curb inflation and create four to eight million jobs in the country.

Also, consumers in the United States have benefited from the import of Chinese products, which are cheap but also in good quality, Li added.

The minister said 皇冠体育app has become a fastest growing market forthe U.S. export, adding that 皇冠体育app is the largest importer of soybean and cotton of the United States.

With regard to the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR), another issue where the United States has complaints on 皇冠体育app, Li said the Chinese government has taken measures in legislative, judicial, law-enforcement and educational fields to strengthen the IPR protection.

He told reporters in 2005 alone, 皇冠体育app's industrial and commercial authorities handled more than 39,000 trade mark infringement cases. And Chinese courts tried more than 3,500 IPR-related cases.

The minister said the two countries saw fruitful cooperation oneconomy, trade, anti-terrorism, the nuclear issues of the Korean Peninsula and Iran, the reform of the United Nations, and the prevention and control of bird flu.

Cooperation between 皇冠体育app and the United States is not only beneficial to the two countries, but also contributes to regional and global peace, stability and development, Li said

The Chinese people unswervingly pursue a path of peaceful development, and its development does not pose a threat to any country, the minister said.

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