Talk:Permanent normal trade relations/Archives/2013

List
 As of 2004, only Laos, North Korea, Cuba, Serbia and Montenegro and Afghanistan do not have NTR status with the United States. - That is not true. Russia, Ukraine and probably a few others CIS countries have not been granted NTR due to Jackson-Vanik amendment. Any other examples? --apoivre 15:02, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Parenthetical comment
In the United States, Normal Trade Relations (NTR) status refers to what the World Trade Organization and much of the rest of the world still refer to (somewhat misleadingly) as Most-Favored Nation status. Isn't it bad practice to have parenthetical comments in Wikipedia articles? Especially editorial ones like this?


 * I don't see this being a problem in this one case. It's pretty objectively a misleading term. Parsed according to the rules of Standard English, "most favored nation" means unambiguously that the nation is superlatively favored, above all others under consideration. In this case, of course, it actually means it is favored equal to the vast majority; the mismatch is for purely historical reasons, which a naive reader has no reason to expect.


 * Hence, calling it misleading is not really editorial. As for the fact that it's parenthetical, I've never heard that rule... Nentuaby 06:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

What does it entail?
It would be interesting to read what privileges PNTR grants on a country. -- Beland (talk) 18:33, 12 August 2009 (UTC)