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cjal-3088	Damrosch, Lori Fisler	The Taiwan Relations Act after Ten Years	1989	28	.pdf	application/pdf	12038	630	63	92 Yet the court of appeals assessed the transaction not just as a purely pri- vate contract but as an exercise of the sovereign prerogative to reg- ulate exports and imports to and from Taiwan.93 The court underscored certain features of CCNAA's alleged representations that it thought to be predominantly sovereign rather than merely commercial, such as commitments to allow the importation of raw materials on a duty-free basis and to accord the plaintiff certain bene- fits under Taiwan law. 86. The then Deputy Secretary of State was pelted with eggs, tomatoes, and stones when he traveled to Taiwan in December of 1978 to explain the United States (U.S.) plan for continuing unofficial rela- tions with Taiwan in the aftermath of recognition of the People's Republic of China (PRC).2 When the Carter administration sent its draft bill on Taiwan relations to the Congress, Senator Frank Church, then chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, character- ized the plan as woefully inadequate,3 and that was one of the milder congressional reactions.	cache/cjal-3088.pdf	txt/cjal-3088.txt