ABSTRACT
The protectionist trend of the post-1924 economic policy was characterized and at the same time encouraged by other events as well. Of prime importance among them were the outbreak of the Polish-German tariff war and its aftermath, and also the import and export bans, compensation, quota, and clearing systems that were universal from 1930/31. In that early period, protection of industry was expressed primarily in wide government assistance to private manufacturers, in low duties on raw materials, and the like. Local farming did not need any special protection, as nearly every agricultural product had a ready market at home. During the boom of 1936-1939, Poland made economic restructuring, industrialization, its aim. In the situation of the increased role of the state, economic policy should have almost automatically adopted a more distinctly protectionist line. In the years 1930 and 1931, Czechoslovakia returned to protectionism. The country began to extend and enhance the existing customs protection.
