Proposed import tax seems less likely to become reality after Cabinet meeting

The controversial import tax proposed by the new government looks less likely after an out-of-town Cabinet meeting on Saturday. Although no decisions were made, the ministers, accompanied by economic experts, spent some five hours discussing potential consequences of the tax. According to Zycie, members of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL), the main proponents of the import tax, were anxious to make a quick getaway after the meeting, which could suggest that they will not get their way. Their statements confirmed such a deduction: "We will not put this issue on the line," said Eugeniusz Klopotek of the PSL. "We will see within a few months who was right: we or the SLD [Democratic Left Alliance] and the experts." (Zycie, p.6) T.J.