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hello yellow welcome to spotlight and so you shout out to our troops our young friend today my guess is very close. after two decades of tough negotiations russia has finally been admitted to the w t out there is remained silent she never will be ratified this summer but even full though the shift doesn't clear all the obstacles on the way to free trade one of them is big jackson family come and linda which stands in the way i'll fetch trade relations between russia and the united states the future i'll brush the american trade is widely discussed later today we'll talk it over with very well the president of the u.s. russia. the jackson benny commitment has long been a thorn in the russia you ask operation it was introduced at the height of the cold

war the saudi. denies normal trading relations with countries that restrict freedom of immigration and human rights the u.s.s.r. has long been gone but the names and places are rarely called more hostile time. president obama and many american businessman are calling for it to be repealed especially since russia is being admitted to the world trade organization but some republicans want to leave the place as a reminder to russia. it's human rights. heard welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us thank you for that well first of all welcome russia's w.t.r. membership expected. to become final this summer will it have any immediate effect on the volume of bilateral trade i think you'll have. want to overstate it

but we think cording to a study that was very well known. back where economic research institute states that we could see a doubling of our exports to russia. over a five year period well now let's find out what the russians think of the countries their membership sparkle i see that to me they were right out into the streets of moscow to ask for people's opinions. how throughout the eighteen years russia was trying to get its w.g. all membership there was bitter debate inside the country on the other it needed that membership but all now that russia has finally been accepted into the world trade organization the dispute on whether it will benefit or damage the country's economy still goes on so let's hear one russians expect from the country's w t o accession and i just thought the russian economy will get foreign investments will start producing goods which will be sold abroad and will be able to say good boy or

dependence on real materialism is. that the whole what if question i think we should not have entered the w t o at all perfectly well without it you know it's still just wonderful sure i expect life to become dancing people to get new opportunities competition is always healthy after the technical details are so complicated and so little talked about in the media that i can't see anything about them. because to get cheaper but. i expect riches accession to the w t o to give us more freedom in communicating with the rest of the world i hope it will lead to easing or abolishing usury games with you or in the united states. i think it will ruin russia especially its agriculture which has even to be seen as a consumer i expect the quality of goods to improve in prices to come down that's what everybody wants but i guess many picturesque with

a some difficulties if they would have to plead with a new routes. i believe this would be a serious examiner for russia and the industry and russian companies in fact the station is not. really good for them now because of what administration. because they depend much of the administration that now there will be another challenge. and i would see the competition. with foreign companies that will be a very challenge for our companies those were the opinions of the people on the streets of moscow and we've got you me here and she's got a question for outgassed bases so russia is a member of his w t o does this mean we'll see more foreign companies in russia. well that's a question for you will we see more foreign companies in recession i would expect so. many companies may have been on the sidelines waiting to decide. if they wanted to invest here and i think that was

a factor that would lead them to decide to do something here but you said yeah you said on streamer first question that the expectations the double to membership. they are overestimated what you mean by the mean in russia will borrow money both sides well when when you asked you said would have an immediate i was thinking perhaps in terms of what the effect would be consumer prices. and bear in mind that russia over the period of transition to complete compliance with the deputy will lower its average care of rate from about ten percent to. about seven point eight who will live you know that doesn't sound like much of. the outliers in the extreme there are some very high rates on certain products and one of the gentlemen there mentioned here or think of lady who has said that she'd like to be able to buy a car. during the transition period which has been negotiated

especially for the automobile sector is concluded in about seven years tariffs will be down to a much lower level than what they are today so her access will be increased good because what people really are expecting the are expecting prices to go down because people travel to europe allowed to travel to the states and they see that things that cost less and that if i if we take a new car it costs in russia nearly twice as much as cost of the united states and people what they do to go down well there are rumors that the car on the new can work and the prices will go up in april and may not well why is that because they're there they're. not aware. doesn't make sense to me. that there is as i mentioned a transition period of seven years for the automobile sector in russia to come into full compliance with those standards and that's

a period that will. help the russian domestic industry including. foreign brand manufacturers in russia to improve their technology to increase the efficiency of their plants and at the end of the period if they haven't succeeded in that well they're going to be faced with the full brunt of of the international market now let's talk about the just then a command i just would remind our viewers knew was introduced. against the us a song by the american parliament when when the u.s.s.r. did let jews freely have a great israel that was ages ago the country he was the son no longer exists but in the amendment is still there well i mean this it makes sense russia joining the devil e.t.o. united states signing an agreement that the jackson very commitment is still there it's nonsense is it we don't think it makes

a lot of sense to every us administration since the clinton administration had wanted to abolish it and they couldn't for some reason there wasn't a compelling reason we have. a most favored nation agreement in place i believe in what was best reason all the jews that wanted to go i read israel right. up there is. the. there wasn't a compelling reason in the past or since one thousand nine hundred two when russia was declared to be ninety four when they were declared to be in compliance with jaxon van eyck both for its requirement. for a free market economy and for free movement of. but as long as we have this bilateral agreement and long as russia was not a member of the w t o there wasn't a compelling reason as soon as it became apparent that russia would join the w t o there was an imperative for. the united states to lift the jackson bannock

a minute because it means while it's in place we cannot extend unconditional. permanent normal trade relations to russia and that's a requirement of the. it means that if it's still there every agreement every deal was made as an exception and that did the right well no i think it means that we continue to operate as we have under this business m.-f. and most favored nation agreement that we have in place but we will not. say we it's been made clear by foreign minister lavrov that any country which does not automatically extend m.f.m. status to russia will not enjoy the benefits of russia's accession agreements that only refers to the united states new things or this problem jackson where it may

become history before the prisoners in the states or the other things to do well i'm going to be optimistic and say i think that it could be lifted by doing it by the end of the current congressional session that is sometime by sometime in july i would. guess and that of course listen. russia when it will become a full fledged member of the senate would get a possibility to see the united states over this amendment restricting free trade. not that i'm aware i don't i mean until we extend those formally we have this right i mean to to to. i don't believe so no ok now do you agree that the. jensen they think admin is mostly is mostly defended by the so-called big chicken.

no i think that i think that there is an understanding and awareness that now that russia is going to be a member of the w.t. you know it doesn't provide any leverage in our trade negotiations with russia and that's what the degree of in is what we've got and as long as jackson vanocur remains in place we're not going to be able to avail ourselves of the concessions if you will that russia has made as part of its negotiation process and that includes the adoption of. international norms science based standards for the importation of agricultural products so now american agricultural exporters to russia have every reason to want us. to live jaxon van and as a matter of fact the poultry producers association is a member of the coalition for u.s. russia trade which comes under. the u.s. r.b.c.

and his the lobbying organization in washington for the so so they are they are in agreement with those of us who are saying it's it's time to lift jackson back america chicken is no longer anti russian. he's the president of the u.s. russia should business spotlight he will be back shortly after a break so stay with us who comes in this interview in less time and it's. hundred. years. forty acres and nineteen ninety three and decided it would be

a great place to find the delta home and retire. there. we have seventy acres and i can convince them that they need to drill. two hundred feet from. the needs of our growing economy also means expanding our domestic production of oil and natural gas which are vital fuels for transportation electricity and manufacturing for many problems before we do the right. or not we get a lot of mis understanding of what i. said you cannot hear unless you come out here and live in my house for a week. you

know sometimes you see a story and it's sick so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't. charge is a big. welcome back to spotlight i love and just a reminder that my guest on the show today's advair run for president of the us russia business council and so a you stated just a minute ago that there are no more anti soviet or anti russian chicken and the

united states i mean paltry yeah so so so the chicken lobby isn't the power that's behind those who fight for for the jackson amendment but the congressman who opposed the lifting of trade restrictions against russia they according to to what i read in the press they say they express anger over the russian curbs on u.s. poultry and other meat products and the poor in foresman in russia of intellectual property rights well i thought that these things i mean i mean russia did have a history of problems. will with this but they are supposed to have been solved when we were. going to join the w t o so so so i would have thought that these problems are really history. because there are

parts of the. accession agreements to deal with those issues i mentioned the. cultural norms and standards of course. sanitary features and it's very standards very apportionment deals with intellectual property rights. all of the commitments that russia has made under its accession agreement will be enforceable once once russia joins and and so it's in our interests to. enable our owners of intellectual property or our exporters of agricultural products to be able to. hold russia to the standards that it. committed itself to so. there may be people who don't fully understand. what jackson vanny represents what it stands for with history there may be others who are not perhaps fully familiar with even the. the deal me because i'm thirty seven and not everybody is an expert on trade and i mean this is an exceptional case is now the

the the largest economy outside of the deputy you know that's entering after a long process of negotiation russia so. what we've been doing. on capitol hill is explaining to members of congress to their staff to the staff of the committees that have jurisdiction over this matter what you know is what jaxon van it is how jackson van it will impede our ability to take advantage of the concessions that russia has made and i think they're coming around to that are you i don't i don't meet many people today who after what we have done over the past two years in particular over the past three months who don't acknowledge now that it is in our economic interest to lift jaxon van is it correct me if i'm mistaken but from what you're saying i'm getting an impression that the reason for which the amendment still there is is not i can think not political but rather

regular is what you're talking about probably a group of people just. they don't understand the importance they don't understand what stands behind it and don't instead of importance of. lifting this is it true so so that there's no there's no political will behind that and no and no it could all be a reason to keep it is that true there's no economic reason to keep it there there may be some who aren't as familiar with the issue and in many cases those may be people who don't sit on a committee that has jurisdiction for now virtually every member of congress who sits on on one of the two direct committees of direct jurisdiction of the house ways and means committee in the senate finance committee know what what what it entails so i wouldn't i wouldn't suggest that they are ignorant of the fact that many people including there are political reasons. to i mean what what spectrum of

the political of the political american clients may be may be against him as well i don't know that you can you can break it down into political factions ok give us the names of well i mean there are people on both sides of of the political spectrum the united states who are concerned about other issues related to russia that we may argue the jaxon van it was adopted as to deal with a human rights question the punishment for you not operational it was meant as an inducement to russia to allow free immigration i meant to say the soviet union. and and that has been achieved the fact that it as i mentioned hasn't been lifted is probably a result of inertia if there's not a compelling reason to do something in any legislature you're probably not going to do is going to spend the political capital now there is and the political will you mention that there is

a political will be administration of nine states and said that this is its top trade priority in two thousand and twelve and they have said so. in testimony on the hill president obama made reference to china to russia in the in his state of the union message so it is important and. i can tell you from my dealings with people in congress they understand they don't want to put american business at a disadvantage but it was seen by many jaxon van dyke as the gold standard of human rights legislation it accomplished a great deal and there are many who say if we lift this now in effect we are perhaps giving a tended signal to russia that we think it is now. a good player in the area of human rights democracy rule of law and just crossed my mind. is a possibility that somebody in the congress and some people in the car with said ok . well the problem with jewish immigration has long been so but let's use the

jackson family commitment in order to protect a gay rights something like that maybe they can't keep it to try to use it again as an instrument for protecting other other residents and. this is one of those well i don't think it works we want any leverage. it's the specific language of jack's vanocur first to immigration and it refers to free market economies that's it those two conditions really setting out the. dollars if it could be used within . the political process in the united states to achieve something related to russia but not directly pertaining to emigration and in this case as i go back to saying that there are there are concerns among members of congress about human rights democracy rule of law in russia and many are saying if we're going to be moving something that has

a very great symbolic significance there should be something in its place. that demonstrates. concern about. what's happening in russia. and i can be more specific if you wish. vice president biden said last year that the value of goods that crosses the u.s. borders with canada and mexico every few days exceeds the annual u.s. trade with russia some experts say that the early showing of the jacks malik amendment with regard to russia could boost bilateral trade ten fold do you agree especially estimation you know i said earlier you know we don't want to overstate the benefits we're not trying to sell something on an exaggerated claim of what it's going to accomplish i think but i said earlier. the doubling of u.s. exports within a five year period is pretty significant accomplishment i mean that's that's that's

a lot of growth and even at the end of that period we still see as a relatively small proportion of our trade with russia much less than what i think . is a potential so ten times over well why not but i don't want to go that far that's going to be somewhere down the road and who knows what's going to happen in the global economy between now and the years of vasily to russia mr mcferrin last year he said the following i quote in my opinion he says this is not true that the jackson valley commitment gives washington some means to pressure on moscow and anachronism cannot serve as a real political instrument of pressure and quote well actually he says he he he says he confirms what you just to sell. those that mean that today this amendment has no polluted political meaning at all. well they said it may be.

may serve as political leverage a bargaining chip within our own political system where you're aware of perhaps the. senator carbons bill. pertaining to sergei magnitsky there are now thirty three. including the senator himself thirty three co-sponsors of that legislation in the senate so they feel very strongly about that and they may be saying we are going to lift jackson vanocur but we won't do it unless we have something we can put in its place that will have a similar. power to effect positive change in the human rights you mention and write a thank you very much and just to remind as baton yesterday here was found throughout that presidents are the u.s. russia business comes and that's it for all of us if you want to have your say and

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