---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6991"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6991"
heading: "Accession of Taiwan to the WTO"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6991"
units:
  - "Chapter 77 — United States-China Relations"
  - "Subchapter V — Accession of Taiwan to the Wto"
---

# §6991. Accession of Taiwan to the WTO


It is the sense of the Congress that—

- (1) immediately upon approval by the General Council of the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5) of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5), the United States representative to the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5) should request that the General Council of the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5) consider Taiwan’s accession to the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5) as the next order of business of the Council during the same session; and
- (2) the United States should be prepared to aggressively counter any effort by any [WTO member](/usc/22/6903.md?p=7), upon the approval of the General Council of the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5) of the terms and conditions of the accession of the People’s Republic of China to the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5), to block the accession of Taiwan to the [WTO](/usc/22/6903.md?p=5).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–286, div. B, title VI, § 601, Oct. 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 906.)