Most-Favored-Nation Status

• Most-Favored-Nation Status

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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• Feds Go After Most Favored Nation Clause

The federal government has filed a lawsuit charging a health insurer engaged in anti-competitive practices of abuse of what's known as "most favored nation" status, a clause common in the cable industry. The Justice Department on Monday sued Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for antitrust violations due to what it described as an anti-competitive "most favored nation" status, mandating the company get the best rate.

• Long Island Business News
• November 01, 2010

• Decisions Not To Initiate Investigations:

... treatment and most-favored-nation (MFN) status in connection with requirements for access to the ...

• FR, May 04, 2011
• Notices
• Trade Representative, Office of United States

• Cubs' New Owners Shouldnit Think Outside This Suggestion Box

The best thing about owning the Cubs is that you never have to pay for advice. The Ricketts family is going to find that out a few paragraphs from now. It has the baseball equivalent of most-favored-nation status, thanks to a bid of roughly $900 million for the ballclub, Wrigley Field and a piece of Comcast SportsNet. If the family can complete sale talks with Tribune Co. successfully and navigate the gauntlet of major-league owners, it will get to be the official receptacle for all Cubs-related suggestions, some of them even printable.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• January 26, 2009

• MFNemies: Beijing's atrocities put free-traders on the defensive.

Most favored nation status Challenges face US Pres Bill Clinton's request that China be given most favored nation (MFN) status. It is highly debatable whether the refusal to grant MFN status to China will improve the social and political conditions in the country.

• Reason
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 3, July 1997

• Beijing Olympics

The coincide with our party conventions heralding the countdown to November's presidential election. With the world's media spotlight on China and the United States, both presidential candidates will undoubtedly be tested by unforeseen developments.Contenders Barack Obama and John McCain should avoid condemning China, and instead signal their intention to develop a personal relationship of trust with their Chinese counterpart soon after taking office. China's human rights are best advanced through discrete encouragement, not negative sound bites. In three election campaigns - in 1980, 1992 and 2000 - future U.S. presidents announced their intention to dramatically toughen national policy toward China. In each instance, the United States then endured months or years of c...

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• August 03, 2008

• 30 Years of U.S.-China Ties

Milestones: 1971: After decades of isolation, China invites U.S. table tennis team for visit, prompting start of "Ping-Pong diplomacy" that brings first significant thaw in U.S.-China relations. 1972: President Richard Nixon visits Beijing, establishing diplomatic channels for the countries to counter Soviet Union. 1979: Diplomatic ties formally established Jan. 1. Deng Xiaoping becomes first Chinese leader to visit U.S., setting tone for warmer relations. 1982: China pledges to seek reunification with U.S.-allied Taiwan by peaceful means but does not explicitly rule out use of force, while U.S. promises not to expand -- and gradually to reduce -- arms sales to Taiwan. 1989: China crushes pro- democracy demonstrations, putting chill on relations with U.S. 1999: During NATO airstrikes i...

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 10, 2009

• Most favored lobby: China gets what it wants the old-fashioned way.

Trade lobbyists have been a major factor in the increases in the US trade deficit and layoffs of American workers. China used a sophisticated lobbying effort to preserve its most-favored-nation trade status in the face of US threats to impose sanctions because of human rights violations.

• Washington Monthly
• Vol. 28 Nbr. 12, December 1996

• Interest Groups and Foreign Policy: Clinton and the China MFN Debates.

Special interest groups defending or denouncing US support of China's Most Favored Nation (MFN) trade status have influenced the terms of debate in both the Clinton Administration and with Congress. In addition to the actions of special interest groups, domestic political goals and international pressures also influence the shape of policy choices. For example, in 1993 Clinton signed an executive order linking MFN status with issues of trade and human rights, but dropped the conditions the following year, not due to pressure from special interests, but to uphold his campaign pledge and avoid distancing himself from Democratic party support.

• Presidential Studies Quarterly
• Vol. 29 Nbr. 2, June 1999

• Trade with China Beneficial?

Rep. Bernie Sanders' "Selling out to China?" (Commentary, Sunday) serves as a poignant reminder that those proponents of granting permanent normal trading relations (previously "most favored nation") status to China have oversold their case. Contrary to their expectations, China's human-rights record has not improved and in some areas has deteriorated since the early 1990s, according to the U.S. State Department and the human-rights community.

• The Washington Times
• January 07, 2005