Certainly, the easiest route for companies to obtain a duty-free quota would seem to be to buy a Polish firm that has been assigned one.

Guidebooks advise travellers to bring their fully duty-free quota, to offset the official rate of exchange.

During this period duty on these three products will be reduced and duty-free quotas will be established for sugar and rice.

An agreement that went into effect in July 1991 sets duty-free quotas and places limits on certain items--mainly milk products, tobacco, and alcoholic beverages.

So, smoker or not, drinker or latter-day prohibitionist, be sure to equip yourself with your full duty-free quotas of Marlboros and Bells afore ye go behind the remnants of the Iron Curtain.

According to the FTA agreement, Morocco can export to the US a duty-free quota of 15 million square meters of finished goods and 500 tonnes of thread and materials made from fibres and cotton from less developed Sub-Saharan African countries.