Ron Kirk: “We will continue to push Russia to adhere to international norms.”

If we don't repeal Jackson-Vanik, to the degree that Russia is opening up liberalizing its services market, investment market, we lose all of the benefits of that.

When Russia becomes a part of the World Trade Organization, they have committed to reasonably full liberalization of their services market.

The most important distinction between this and China, Senator, is that, in the case of Russia, we insisted that they put in place their laws to implement the WTO rules before we would allow them to accede to the WTO.

Let's not give Russia that 10-year liberal period that China--China agreed that they would join the GPA within 10 years.