Principles of Trade Policy Contained in the GATT Statutes and Conditions of Poland’s Participation

The article contains an analysis of principles of trade policy stipulated in the statutes of GATT from the point of view of conditions of Poland’s participation in GATT. Hence the structure of the article, that is to say the article is divided into two parts. In the first part the author characterizes the principles of trade policy themselves as formulated in the statutes of GATT. This refers obviously to basic instruments of trade policy i.e. the most-favoured nation treatment, customs tariffs, and quota restrictions. This analysis makes it possible to pass to the second part, in which there are discussed conditions of Poland’s participation in GATT, and possibilities of negotiating their newer form. The analysis ends with the Tokyo Round, the debates of which were still in progress when this article was being written