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University Daily Kansan
Monday. Nov. 19, 1962
U.S. Warns Against Agricultural Tariffs
PARIS—(UPI)—The United States today bluntly warned Europe's Common Market countries to maintain and expand their purchases of U.S. farm products or face economic reprisals.
The American government urged the Common Market to exercise a "great moral and practical responsibility" in the imposition of tariffs against agricultural imports from the United States.
"The continued unity and strength of the Western world is at stake" in the maintenance of international trade, the United States warned.
THE AMERICAN view was presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman in a major policy speech at a ministerial meeting of the agricultural committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
(Freeman's speech was released simultaneously in Paris, Washington, and Brussels, headquarters of the Common Market.)
Freeman's "frank and candid" speech was approved by the White House and the State Department.
(THE SPEECH was viewed in Washington as reflecting a tough new attitude on trade by the Kennedy administration, and a determination to use retaliation if necessary to protect American markets. It was designed as "educational" for Freeman's European audience.
(Some high officials in the Agriculture Department believe the United States has been "too soft-headed" in trade negotiations and needs to toughen its bargaining tactics.)
THE OECD consists of the nations of Western Europe—six of whom are the Common Market—plus Canada and the United States.
The Common Market—West Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg—currently buys more than a third of U.S. farm exports sold for dollars. If Britain joins the Common Market, the expanded European Economic Community (EEC) could account for more than half of U.S. dollar exports of farm products.
Under the Common Market's system of variable levy fees on imports, tariffs can be raised or lowered to keep out certain products, or let them in.
Poland,YugoslaviaMay Seek Common Market Affiliation
BELGRade. Yugoslavia — (UPI) An official visit by Polish Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki raised speculation today that Yugoslavia and Poland may seek some form of association with Western Europe's Common Market.
Rapacki arrived for the start of a five-day visit here today and there are a number of obvious subjects that will come up between him and Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koka Popovic.
THEY PROBABLY will discuss Rapacki's plan for denuclearizing Central Europe and the strained relations between Red China and the Soviet Union.
But the common economic problems of the two nations raised the most intriguing possibilities.
Poland and Yugoslavia have much in common. Both are considered the most liberal of the Eastern European nations. Both have relatively prosperous farm economies built more along capitalistic rather than collective lines.
And both have been hit by the new U.S. trade law requiring President Kennedy to raise tariffs against them as soon as possible to the levels imposed on the rest of the Communist bloc.
POLITICAL OBSEVERS thought it possible that Poland, faced with a loss of U.S. markets, might join Yugoslavia in seeking a close relationship with the six Common Market nations which may be expanded to include Britain and other Western countries.
Western diplomats in Belgrade reported last week that Yugoslavia already has sent out feelings toward the Common Market. This is believed to be the first such move by a Communist country.
Rapacki and Yugoslavia also are expected to talk over the Cuban situation. Yugoslav sources say President Titov's government feels the Cuban problem still is "very dangerous."
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