Edition: U.S. / Global  Clinton Frees Russia From Curbs on Trade
Published: September 21, 1994  In a good-will gesture for a
summit meeting with Russia next week, President Clinton signed a
declaration today that frees the former Soviet state from one of
the central political weapons of the cold war, a law tying trade
conditions to emigration, senior Administration officials said.
President Boris N. Yeltsin of Russia, who will meet with Mr.
Clinton in Washington next week, had contended that his country
remained unfairly burdened by the 20-year-old American law,
known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which was intended to
embarrass Moscow for policies that made it difficult for Jews to
emigrate.  Since 1990, former President George Bush and Mr.
Clinton have waived the law in granting Russia the standard
level of low tariffs that the United States grants to almost
every trading partner. But Mr. Yeltsin has complained, most
recently at the Group of Seven meeting this summer, that the
strides he and his country