UN General Assembly
1962

106. The normalization of international trade is another urgent task confronting the United Nations. As a result of the discriminatory policies practised by certain countries, negative phenomena are to be observed in this important field of inter-State relations. These negative phenomena have been accentuated by the emergence of closed economic groupings, particularly since the establishment of the European Common Market. The multilateral development of world trade is being seriously hampered by the economic groupings of the Western countries, the application of discriminatory customs tariffs, the closing of markets, quantitative restrictions, etc. These groupings resort to economic integration either to maintain their former colonial privileges or to obtain new ones by taking advantage of the economic difficulties of countries which have recently become independent. Their economic foreign policy is being increasingly subordinated to political and military interests.