Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New York Democrat, announced today the introduction of an amendment to the 1962 Trade Expansion Act which would suspend benefits of trade agreement concessions on products imported from Poland. “The amendment is in essence a negation of the ‘most favored nation’ trading privileges which the United States had extended to Poland since 1960,” he said.
“Since 1963 the Communist state of Poland has benefitted from the terms of trade that are enjoyed by our oldest and most faithful allies — ‘most favored nation’ privileges. They were extended by the Administration in response to signs in Poland that the Government was creating a more liberal regime, one in which greater attention was given to human liberty,” Mr. Farbstein said. Poland abused these privileges, he said, by returning “to a kind of abject Stalinism coupled with one of the most pernicious practices in which a state can engage — official anti-Semitism. There is no longer any excuse for such privileges,” the Congressman asserted.
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