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{{Short description|Provision in American law affecting American trade with countries that restrict emigration}}
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The '''Jackson–Vanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974''' is a 1974 provision in [[United States federal law]] intended to affect U.S. trade relations with countries with non-[[market economy|market economies]] (originally, countries of the [[Soviet Bloc]]) that restrict freedom of Jewish [[emigration]] and other [[human rights]]. The amendment is contained in the [[Trade Act of 1974]] which passed both houses of the [[United States Congress]] unanimously, and was signed by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Gerald Ford]] into law, with the adopted amendment, on January 3, 1975. Over time, a number of countries were granted conditional normal trade relations subject to annual review, and a number of countries were liberated from the amendment.

On December 14, 2012, President [[Barack Obama]] signed the [[Magnitsky Act]] (formally titled the Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012)<ref name="Obama Signs Magnitsky Bill"/><ref name="Richard_Solash">{{cite web |title=Obama Signs Russia, Moldova Trade Bill And Magnitsky Sanctions Into Law |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill/24798980.html |last=Solash |first=Richard |date=December 14, 2012 |website=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |access-date=September 19, 2020}}</ref> that repealed the application of the Jackson–Vanik amendment to [[Russia]] and gave normal US trade relations to Russia and [[Moldova]], instead punishing individuals violating human rights.

The amendment is named after its major co-sponsors [[Henry M. Jackson]] of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] and [[Charles A. Vanik]] of [[Ohio]] in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]], both [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]].

==Background==
===Antisemitism in the Soviet Union under Brezhnev===
{{Excerpt|Antisemitism in the Soviet Union#Under Brezhnev}}

===Timeline===
From 1972 to January 1975, [[US Congress|Congress]] debated and added the Jackson-Vanik Amendment to the [[Trade Act of 1974]], which had restricted the president's ability to provide [[most favored nation]] (MFN) status to the [[Soviet Union]] and other non-market economies of the Soviet bloc. The timing and provisions of the amendment reflected the presidential ambitions and distrust of the Soviet Union of Senator [[Henry M. Jackson|Henry Jackson]] (D-WA).<ref name=stern1>[[#CITEREFStern1979|Stern 1979]], Chapter 1.</ref>

After the Soviet Union allowed a number of [[History of the Jews in the Soviet Union|Soviet Jews]] to emigrate in the years after the 1967 [[Six-Day War|June War]] in the [[Middle East]], expectations of freer emigration to buttress Jewish settlers to Israel were raised, but they were soon shattered as the 1972 [[Eastern Bloc emigration and defection|Soviet emigration]] head tax made emigration very difficult. This Soviet edict levied an additional exit tax on educated emigrants, which appeared to have the effect of singling out Jews, who anonymously had the highest  state paid education costs and wealth, most heavily. The education tax, imposed  after the 1972 Moscow summit of superpower leaders [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Leonid Brezhnev]], emboldened those who criticized the Nixon administration's policy of [[detente]] for downplaying concerns for human rights.<ref name=stern1 /> Nixon's handling of the issue of Soviet Jewish emigration and US National Security Advisor [[Henry Kissinger]]'s reluctance to broach the subject disappointed US Jewish activists.<ref name=stern1 /> The Soviets announced the abolishing of the tax just before the introduction of the amendment in Congress, arguably in an attempt to halt its enactment.<ref name=sana>[http://forward.com/news/12254/declassified-kgb-study-illuminates-early-years-of-00966/ "Declassified KGB Study Illuminates Early Years of Soviet Jewish Emigration"], Sana Krasikov, December 12, 2007 (retrieved May 31, 2015)</ref>

At first, Jackson organized the political movement to link trade and emigration in US relations with the Soviet Union in concert with Jewish activists, but he soon took matters into his own hands. Jackson drafted what would become the Jackson–Vanik amendment in mid-1972 and introduced it to the 92nd Congress on October 4, 1972. Jackson's efforts, rooted in his own domestic political agenda and ideological distrust of and antipathy toward the Soviet Union, complicated the Nixon White House's pursuit of detente, which it had worked on since 1969.<ref name=stern2 /> However, three-quarters of the Senate co-sponsored the amendment, neutralizing opposition from President Nixon.<ref name=stern2>[[#CITEREFStern1979|Stern 1979]], Chapter 2.</ref>

Jackson's staffer [[Richard Perle]] said in an interview that the idea belonged to Jackson, who believed that the right to emigrate was the most powerful among the human rights in certain respects: "if people could vote with their feet, governments would have to acknowledge that and governments would have to make for their citizens a life that would keep them there."<ref>[https://www.pbs.org/thinktank/transcript1017.html "Richard Perle: The Making of a Neoconservative"], a PBS transcript</ref> While there was some opposition, the American Jewish establishment on the whole and Soviet Jewry activists (particularly the Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=384545 | title=Collection: Washington Committee for Soviet Jewry Records &#124; the Center for Jewish History ArchivesSpace }}</ref> and the [[National Conference on Soviet Jewry]]) supported the amendment over Nixon's and Kissinger's objections.<ref name="Lazin"/>

In 1973 Rep. Charles Vanik, chair of the [[United States House Committee on Ways and Means|House Ways and Means]] Subcommittee on Trade, introduced in the House of Representatives the legislation drafted with Jackson. The amendment would deny normal trade relations to certain countries with non-market economies that restricted freedom of emigration. The amendment was intended to allow primarily Jewish refugees and other religious minorities to escape from the [[Soviet bloc]].  Vanik's aide, [[Mark E. Talisman]], is regarded as having played an instrumental role in securing passage.<ref name="BarnesObit">{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Bart |title=Mark Talisman, advocate for Jewish causes, dies at 77 (obit) |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/mark-talisman-advocate-for-jewish-causes-dies-at-77/2019/07/16/b5d3caa8-a72a-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html |access-date=21 July 2019 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=16 July 2019}}</ref><ref name="JTAobit">{{cite news |title=Mark Talisman, Champion Of Key Law In Fight For Soviet Jewry, Is Dead At 78 |url=https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/mark-talisman-champion-of-key-law-in-fight-for-soviet-jewry-is-dead-at-78/ |access-date=21 July 2019 |agency=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |publisher=[[Jewish Week]] |date=15 July 2019}}</ref>

Jackson attached his amendment to legislation the Nixon administration badly wanted. In the House of Representatives, Vanik lined up House leaders as primary sponsors of the amendment. During this period, Jackson also expanded his base of support, adding other ethnic, economic, and ideological groups as supporters. Labor, ethnic groups originally from Eastern European and [[Baltic States]], human rights organizations and liberal intellectuals were the most significant additions to organized labor and Jewish activists. While building support, Jackson resisted compromise with the administration and the Soviet Union.<ref name=stern3>[[#CITEREFStern1979|Stern 1979]], Chapter 3.</ref>

Once the Nixon administration began to appreciate the threat Jackson presented its policy of detente, and in particular the [[Linkage (policy)|linkage]] of detente to expanded trade, it made a number of attempts to thwart Jackson. The administration tried to keep the amendment out of the committee version of the bill during the House Ways and Means Committee's markup sessions. When it became clear that this was impossible, delay was the administration's next option, along with the threat of a veto.<ref name=stern3 />

The [[Yom Kippur War]] in October 1973 further complicated Congressional views of the Soviet Union. Soviet involvement in the conflict may have stoked distrust of the USSR by some members of Congress, but there were other members who feared that pressure on the [[Nixon Administration]] to advance the goals of the Jackson–Vanik amendment complicated the emergency supply of US military weapons to [[Israel]]. Israel prevailed in the Yom Kippur War, and on December 11 the House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming 319-80 vote to include the entire Jackson–Vanik amendment in the trade bill, which passed 272–140. With that, Congress recessed until January 1974.<ref name=stern3 />

On January 21, 1974, the second session of the [[93rd United States Congress]] began, and the Jackson amendment was introduced in the Senate. Having lost the legislative battle in the House of Representatives, the administration and Soviet authorities turned to negotiations with Jackson. Trilateral talks began in spring 1974 involving Congress, the [[Executive Branch]] and the Soviet Union. The prominent individuals involved were Jackson, Kissinger, and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. [[Anatoly Dobrynin]], a skilled senior diplomat who had served in Washington for decades. Kissinger enjoyed a special status in these negotiations since he alone controlled the communications between Jackson and the Soviet Union. In effect, Kissinger was the only one of the three parties involved who knew what all sides were saying in secret, informal sessions, while he also conducted a long-standing "back channel" dialogue with Soviet authorities via Dobrynin. Kissinger's influence only grew as Nixon was increasingly consumed by the Watergate political scandal.<ref name=stern4>[[#CITEREFStern1979|Stern 1979]], Chapter 4.</ref>

In March 1974, Kissinger returned from Moscow with news that the Soviets were willing to cooperate with the members of Congress. Jackson, however, would complicate matters by making public the demands that had been accommodated in quiet diplomatic dialogue.<ref name=stern4 />

Jackson pursued negotiations with the administration and the Soviet Union on the terms of the amendment. The outline of an agreement was perceivable, but by summer the talks seemed to bog down as Watergate sapped the Executive Branch's political energy. Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974.

In August 1974, when the national deadlock was broken by Nixon's resignation and [[President Ford|Ford]]'s appointment, Jackson had to decide whether or not to concur with an agreement that was not perfect or hold out longer and possibly sink the entire trade bill. Given the choice of having the bill with the Jackson amendment or doing away with both the bill and the Jackson amendment together, Kissinger was apparently willing to let the two die. So to compromise, Jackson had agreed to grant, at least temporarily, trade concessions, including extensions of credit, to the Soviet Union.<ref name=stern5>[[#CITEREFStern1979|Stern 1979]], Chapter 5.</ref>

Eventually, Jackson accepted less than perfect terms. Jackson was anxious to achieve a legislative victory after years of battle and apparently decided it best not to ask too many more questions nor press too hard for less ambiguous pledges lest he be left with nothing to show for his efforts.<ref name=stern5 />

President Ford signed the 1972 Trade Agreement on January 3, 1975, with the Jackson amendment. On January 10, the Soviet government sent a letter that apparently indicated the Soviets' refusal to comply with the need to provide assurances on emigration or to make technical changes in the 1972 Trade Agreement. On January 13, Kissinger met with Soviet officials and subsequently issued a statement "that the 1972 Trade Agreement cannot be brought into force at this time and the President will therefore not take the steps required for this purpose by the Trade Agreement. The President does not plan at this time to exercise the waiver authority."<ref name=stern5 />

===Business involvement===
Harry Stone, vice president and his brother, Irving Stone, president of [[American Greetings]] based in Vanick's home town, [[Cleveland, Ohio]], played a major role in gaining sponsorship for the amendment. Harry Stone served as campaign chairman to the late U.S. Representative Charles Vanik, a connection that gained significance when Vanik asked Stone and his brother Irving, then American Greetings president, to encourage congressman Wilbur Mills to schedule a floor vote on the Jackson-Vanik Amendment requiring the Soviet Union to allow Jewish emigration to the U.S. in order to qualify for "most favored nation status" for its exports. Senator [[J. William Fulbright]], chair of the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] characterized the amendment as "idealistic meddling" in the amendment's attempts to use free Jews using trade and credit as levers against the Soviet Union. American Greetings was the largest employer in Mills's Arkansas district. Fulbright, apparently saw the same light as Mills, as American Greetings opened one of its largest printing plants in Fulbright's and Mills's state of Arkansas.

"The role that Harry Stone played in making the Jackson-Vanik bill a reality will go down as one of the most meaningful contributions that a Clevelander has ever made," says Vic Gelb, an honorary for life director of the Cleveland Jewish News. "It made a world of difference in the history of events and enabled the exodus of Jews from the former Soviet Union."

===Conclusion===
The difficulty faced by Senator Jackson in the three-way negotiation process that took place from August 1974 through January 1975, demonstrated some of the institutional constraints on congressional involvement in foreign policy making. The Jackson–Vanik amendment is a case study of how domestic politics shapes American Foreign policy making. It exemplifies the fact that one cannot understand U.S. foreign policy if one does not understand the domestic politics in Congress and the White House that shape policy decisions.

==Content==
The amendment denied [[most favored nation]] status to certain countries with non-market economies that restricted emigration, which is considered a [[Human rights|human right]]. Permanent normal trade relations can have been extended to such country only if the president determined that it complies with the freedom of emigration requirements. However, the president had authority to grant an annual waiver, which was granted to the [[People's Republic of China]] in the late 1970s and to [[Vietnam]] and [[Laos]] in later decades.

The core provision of the amendment was codified as 19 U.S.C. 2432(a), Sec. 402 "Freedom of Emigration in East-West Trade" of the [[Trade Act of 1974]] ({{USStatute|93|618|88|1978}}):

<blockquote>(a) '''Actions of nonmarket economy countries making them ineligible for normal trade relations, programs of credits, credit guarantees, or investment guarantees, or commercial agreements''' To assure the continued dedication of the United States to fundamental human rights, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, on or after January 3, 1975, products from any nonmarket economy country shall not be eligible to receive nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations), such country shall not participate in any program of the Government of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, directly or indirectly, and the President of the United States shall not conclude any commercial agreement with any such country, during the period beginning with the date on which the President determines that such country -
:(1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate;
:(2) imposes more than a nominal [[Expatriation tax|tax on emigration]] or on the visas or other documents required for emigration, for any purpose or cause whatsoever; or
:(3) imposes more than a nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice,
and ending on the date on which the President determines that such country is no longer in violation of paragraph (1), (2), or (3).</blockquote>

==Effects==
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The countries subject to the amendment included the [[Soviet Union]] (and later the [[post-Soviet states]]), the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Romania]], [[Hungary]], [[Czechoslovakia]], [[East Germany]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Mongolia]], [[Albania]], [[Cambodia]], [[Laos]], and [[Vietnam]].<ref name= octs/>

Of Soviet Bloc countries, [[Poland]] was exempt from the amendment, but from 1982 to 1987 its unconditional MFN status was suspended due to its actions against [[Solidarność]].  [[Yugoslavia]] was also exempt; however, in 1991–1992, due to violent events in the [[former Yugoslavia]], the MFN status of [[Serbia]] and [[Montenegro]] was suspended.<ref name= octs/>

===Soviet Union===
[[File:Soviet Exit Visa Forever.jpg|right|thumb|Exit USSR visa of the type 2. For those who received permission to leave the USSR permanently and lost Soviet citizenship. Not all were able to receive this kind of exit visa]]
At first the Jackson–Vanik amendment did little to help [[Movement to Free Soviet Jewry|free Soviet Jewry]]. The number of exit visas declined after the passing of the amendment.<ref name="Lazin">{{cite book | title=The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment | publisher=Lexington Books. Rowman and Littlefield | author=Lazin, Fred A. | year=2005 | location=Lanham, Md. | pages=51}}</ref> However, in the late 1980s [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] agreed to comply with the protocols of the [[Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe]]. Lazin (2005) states that scholars differ on how effective the amendment was in helping Soviet Jews. Some argue that it helped bring the plight of Soviet Jews to the world's attention, while others believe it hindered emigration and decreased America's diplomatic bargaining power.<ref name="Lazin"/>

Since 1975 more than 500,000 refugees, large numbers of whom were Jews, [[Evangelicalism|evangelical Christians]], and [[Catholic Church|Catholics]] from the former Soviet Union, have been resettled in the [[United States]]. An estimated one million Soviet Jews have [[Immigration to Israel|immigrated to Israel]] in that time.

Jackson–Vanik also led to great changes within the Soviet Union.  Other ethnic groups subsequently demanded the right to emigrate, and the ruling [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Communist Party]] had to face the fact that there was widespread dissatisfaction with its governance.

Former Soviet dissident [[Natan Sharansky]] wrote in his 2004 book ''[[The Case for Democracy]]'' (p.&nbsp;3):

{{blockquote|... [[Henry Kissinger|Kissinger]] saw Jackson's amendment as an attempt to undermine plans to smoothly carve up the geopolitical pie between the superpowers. It was. Jackson believed that the Soviets had to be confronted, not [[Appeasement|appeased]].

[[Andrei Sakharov]] was another vociferous opponent of [[détente]]. He thought it swept the Soviet's human rights record under the rug in the name of improved superpower relations. ... One message he would consistently convey to these foreigners (the press) was that human rights must never be considered a humanitarian issue alone. For him, it was also a matter of international security. As he succinctly put it: "A country that does not respect the rights of its own people will not respect the rights of its neighbors."}}

===Lautenberg Amendment (1990)===
After [[Boris Perchatkin]]’s speeches in the US Congress in 1989{{sfn|Gura|2018|p=173}}{{sfn|Ostrovskaya|2017|p=69}}{{sfn|Semyonova|2020}} [[Frank Lautenberg]] suggested the Lautenberg Amendment, Public Law 101–167, enacted on November 21, 1989, took effect in 1990 which provided refugee status in the United States for nationals from the Soviet Union and later the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania who are Jews, Evangelical Christians, Ukrainian Catholics or Ukrainian Orthodox; as well as nationals of Vietnam, Laos, or Cambodia; and Jews, Christians, Baha’is and other religious minorities from Iran.<ref name=JTA2013-03-22>{{cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/2013/03/22/news-opinion/politics/congress-extends-lautenberg-amendment|title=Congress extends Lautenberg amendment|date=2013-03-22|work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]|last=Kampeas|first=Ron|author-link=Ron Kampeas|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> The Lautenberg measure allowed refugee status to people from historically persecuted groups without requiring them to show that they had been singled out.<ref name=JTA2013-03-22/><ref name=USNews>{{cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/boris-epshteyn/2013/06/06/what-senator-frank-lautenberg-did-for-my-jewish-family|title=Thank You Senator Lautenberg: The Lautenberg Amendment opened the door for more religious minorities to find a new life in America.|date=2013-06-06|work=[[US News]]|last=Epshteyn|first=Boris|author-link=Boris Epshteyn|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> Under the Lautenberg Amendment, 350,000 to 400,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union who had not presented any form of evidence of persecution gained entry to the United States by October 2002 according to the [[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} Beginning in 2002, a special "[[United States Citizenship and Immigration Services|Refugee Corps]]" in the [[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]] handled issues involving the Lautenberg Amendment.<ref name=JTA2002-12-12>{{cite news|url=https://www.jta.org/2002/12/12/archive/new-agents-to-handle-refugees-could-help-jews-from-fsu-iran|title=New Agents to Handle Refugees Could Help Jews from FSU, Iran|date=2012-12-12|work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref>

===Post-soviet states===
====Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania====
[[Estonia]], [[Latvia]] and [[Lithuania]] were subject to the amendment because they had been [[Soviet occupation of the Baltic States|forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union]]. They were liberated from the amendment upon the US recognition of their independence on September 6, 1991.<ref name= octs/>

====Kazakhstan====
[[Kazakhstan]]'s Jewish community reportedly requested the US to cancel Jackson Vanik amendment for Kazakhstan.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=195969 |title=Jewish Community Asks USA to Cancel Jackson-vanik Amendment for Kazakhstan |website=www.cjp.org |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130703232122/http://www.cjp.org/page.aspx?id=195969 |archive-date=3 July 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> In an article titled "A Relic of the Cold War", journalist Robert Guttman refers to the Amendment as an "outdated and rather meaningless piece of legislation".<ref>[http://transatlantic-magazine.com/a-relic-of-the-cold-war-the-jackson-vanik-amendment/ "A Relic of the Cold War"], Robert Guttman</ref> The [[United States Chamber of Commerce|U.S. Chamber of Commerce]] argues that the application of Jackson-Vanik on Kazakhstan puts U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage.<ref name=JVkz>{{cite web|title=US Chamber of Commerce Primer on PNTR for Kazakhstan|url=https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/documents/files/kazakhstan_pntr_primer_-_us_chamber.pdf|publisher=U.S. Chamber of Commerce}}</ref> The Chamber urges the U.S. Congress to graduate Kazakhstan from Jackson-Vanik.<ref name=JVkz />

====Kyrgyzstan====
[[Kyrgyzstan]]  first received conditional normal trade relations in 1992. In 1997 it was found fully compliant with the Jackson-Vanik provisions, but its status remained subject to annual review. On May 18, 2000, Public Law 106-200 authorized the President to extend unconditional normal trade relations to Kyrgyzstan.<ref name= octs>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=o07LJexci4oC&pg=PA255 Overview and Compilation of U.S. Trade Statutes]''. Government Printing Office, 2001. pp. 250–259.</ref>

====Moldova====
[[Moldova]] first received conditional normal trade relations in 1992. In 1997 it was found to be fully compliant with the Jackson-Vanik provisions, but its status remained subject to annual review.<ref name= octs/>

On November 16, 2012 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would repeal the Jackson–Vanik amendment for Russia and Moldova. After approval by the Senate, the law repealing the effects of the Jackson–Vanik amendment on Russia and Moldova was signed by President Barack Obama on December 14, 2012.<ref name="Whitehouse.gov"/>

====Russia====
In 2003, [[Vladimir Putin]] pursued an economic agenda for Russia to begin normalized trade relations with the West which included Russia joining the [[European Union]] and the repeal of the Jackson–Vanik amendment.<ref name=UPIWalker2003-07-31>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Walkers-World-Putin-votes-and-money/48411059650403/|title=Walker's World: Putin, votes and money|date=2003-07-31|agency=[[United Press International|UPI]]|last=Walker|first=Martin|author-link=Martin Walker (reporter)|access-date=2018-12-03}}</ref> Putin tried to use his relationships with both the Italian Prime Minister [[Silvio Berlusconi]], who was the head of the European Union's Council in 2003, to gain Russia's membership in the European Union, and also [[Maurice R. Greenberg|Hank Greenberg]], who was the chairman and CEO of the [[American International Group|American International Group (AIG)]], to repeal the Jackson-Vanik provisions in the United States.<ref name=UPIWalker2003-07-31/> Putin wished for Greenberg to support through Greenberg's AIG greater development of the nascent Russian home-mortgage market.<ref name=UPIWalker2003-07-31/>

On November 16, 2012 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would repeal the Jackson–Vanik amendment for Russia and Moldova. After approval by the Senate, the law repealing the effects of the Jackson–Vanik amendment on Russia and Moldova was signed together with [[Magnitsky bill]] by President Barack Obama on December 14, 2012.<ref name="Obama Signs Magnitsky Bill">{{cite web|title=Obama Signs Magnitsky Bill|url=http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill/473144.html|agency=Reuters|work=The Moscow Times|access-date=26 December 2012|date=17 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204024925/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill/473144.html |archive-date=December 4, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Whitehouse.gov">{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/14/statement-press-secretary-hr-6156 |title=Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 6156 |date=2012-12-14 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=2012-12-18}}</ref>

====Ukraine====
On March 8, 2006, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill permanently exempting Ukraine from trade restrictions imposed under the 1974 Jackson–Vanik amendment.<ref>[http://www.usubc.org/AUR/aur671.php  THE ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR - Number 671]</ref>

===People's Republic of China===
Until the [[China and the World Trade Organization|accession of the PRC]] to the [[World Trade Organization]] in December 2001 the PRC was covered by the provisions of Jackson-Vanik.  Before China's crackdown on the [[Tiananmen protests of 1989]], a waiver was granted to China as a routine matter.<ref name=":05">{{Cite book |last=Lampton |first=David M. |title=Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War |date=2024 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |isbn=978-1-5381-8725-8 |location=Lanham, MD |pages= |author-link=David M. Lampton}}</ref>{{Rp|page=211}} After the crackdown, the waiver became a more contentious issue.<ref name=":05" />{{Rp|page=211}} As part of the 2001 WTO entry agreement for China, China received [[permanent normal trade relations]] and the Jackson-Vanik amendment no longer applied.<ref name=":05" />{{Rp|page=214}}

==U.S. legal challenge==
In April 2011, American University in Moscow professor Eduard Lozansky and former [[Reagan administration]] official Antony Salvia filed a federal lawsuit in [[Washington, D.C.]] against the [[Obama administration]] arguing the law is illegal.<ref>[http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/04/20/49208712.html "Two US citizens sue President over Jackson-Vanik amendment"], Mamonov Roman. Voice of Russia. April 20, 2011. Accessed June 7, 2011</ref><ref>[http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2011/04/21/Jackson-Vanik-law-challenged-in-court/UPI-99561303416880/ "Jackson-Vanik law challenged in court"], UPI. April 21, 2011. Accessed June 7, 2011</ref>

==See also==
*[[Antisemitism in the Soviet Union]]
*[[Aliyah from the Soviet Union in the 1970s]]
*[[Migration diplomacy]]
*[[Refugees as weapons]]
*[[Refusenik]]
**[[Jewish emigration from Romania#Communist period|Jewish emigration from Communist Romania]]

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==Further reading==
*{{cite journal|last=Brumley|first=Robert H.|year=1990|title=Jackson–Vanik: Hard Facts, Bad Law?|journal=Boston University International Law Journal |volume=8|issue=2|pages=363–372}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Jochnick|first1=Christopher B.|last2=Zinner|first2=Josh|title=Linking Trade Policy to Free Emigration: The Jackson–Vanik Amendment|journal=Harvard Human Rights Journal|volume=4|issue=1|pages=128–151|year=1991}}
*{{cite journal|last=Korey|first=William|year=1988|title=The Jackson–Vanik Amendment in Perspective|journal=Soviet Jewish Affairs|volume=18|issue=1 |pages=29–47|doi=10.1080/13501678808577593}}
*{{cite journal|last=Lazin|first=Fred A.|year=2011|title=Jewish Influence in American Foreign Policy: American Jewry, Israel and the Issue of Soviet Jewry, 1968–1989|journal=The Lawyer Quarterly|volume=3|issue=1|pages=157–169|url=http://www.ilaw.cas.cz/tlq/index.php/tlq/article/view/14/12}}
*{{cite journal|last=McMahon|first=Michael S.|year=1980|title=The Jackson–Vanik Amendment to the Trade Act of 1974: An Assessment after Five Years|journal=Columbia Journal of Transnational Law|volume=18|issue=3|pages=525–556}}

==External links==
* [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode19/usc_sup_01_19_10_12_20_IV.html Subchapter IV—Trade Relations With Countries Not Receiving Nondiscriminatory Treatment]

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