Polands MFN status was restored in 1960. Cubas was reyoked in 1962. During negotiations by the Nixon administration in 1972 to restore MFN for the Soviet Union. it became known that the Soviet Union had begun charging people wishing to emigrate "educational fees" of as much as $20.000 or $30.000in addition to exit visas that already cost $1.200. In response. Senator JACKSON and 73 cosponsors offered an amendment to prohibit MFN treatment for any nonmarket economy country which denies or imposes undue burdens on the right of its citizens to emigrate. Thus was born the JacksonVanik freedom of emigration provision. Eventually included as an amendment to the Trade Act of 1974. JacksonVanik has come to embody the connection made between U.S. trade policy and U.S. human rights policy.
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