Our use of trade and economic sanctions as weapons to alter the internal conduct of other nations must also be seriously reexamined. However well intentioned the goals. the fact is that some of our recent actions in the economic field have been selfdefeating. They are not achieving the objectives intended by the Congress. And they have damaged our foreign policy. The Trade Act of 1974 prohibits mostfavored nation treatment. credit and investment guarantees and commercial agreements with the Soviet Union so long as their emigration policies fail to meet our criteria. The Soviet Union has therefore refused to put into effect the important 1972 trade agreement between our two countries. As a result.
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