Special trade status for Poland ended by US

By Compiled From Wire Service Dispatches With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Anne Collier

October 29, 1982

Washington

President Reagan signed a proclamation suspending special trade status for Poland in retaliation for continued repression by that country's Soviet-backed military regime.

The action suspends the ''most favored nation'' status that Poland had consistently enjoyed for two decades.