Description acceptable. In a 2020 article, Robert Feenstra argued that dramatic price swings following this policy event cannot be explained by the granting of PNTR. This policy event is the subject of a 2013 American Economic Review article that instrumented a measure of US industry-level penetration with data from eight comparable developed countries. Harsh conditions imposed before this policy event required that its central country agree to rules like TRIMs despite being designated a “non-market economy.” David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson have argued that the (*) “shock” stemming from this policy event caused local labour market contractions in regions like Virginia’s furniture belt. For 10 points, Bill Clinton approved what 2001 policy event, which involved the world’s then-most populous country joining the successor organization to GATT? ■END■
ANSWER: China’s accession to the WTO [accept any answer referring to the People’s Republic of China joining or becoming a member of the WTO; accept “World Trade Organization” instead of “WTO”; accept any answer referring to China being granted Most Favored Nation status; prompt on China shock or China syndrome by asking “what policy event largely precipitated that phenomenon?”; prompt on answers mentioning China’s market liberalization or China’s trade liberalization with “what specific policy event?”; reject answers referring to the “Republic of China”]
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