2002 Reports

Jackson-Vanik: Its Origin and Impact as Russia Nears "Graduation"

Korey, William

As Congress moved in the spring of 2002 to end a quarter-century legislative trade sanction upon Russia—the historic Jackson-Vanik amendment—the leading voice on human rights in the Congress, Representative Tom Lantos (D. - A.) waxed eloquent in praise of the amendment and what it had accomplished. Its “legacy” of using trade for human rights purposes, if at the time “unprecedented,” should serve, he believed, as a frame of reference for future congressional legislation.