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- Part II Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU
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- Annex C Information on Appellate Body Reports – 1996 to January 2010
- Annex D Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU – 1996 to 2009
- Annex E Articles of Covered Agreements Addressed in Appellate Body Reports
- Annex F Working Procedures for Appellate Review WT/AB/WP/61
- Abbreviations used in the Table of References to the Covered Agreements and other Instruments and in the Indexes
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents (outline)
- Contents (detail)
- Foreword to the 1995–2010 edition
- Part I Appellate Body Reports
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Part II Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU
- Annex A Terms of Office of Current and Former Appellate Body Members and Chairpersons – 31 December 2009
- Annex B Biographies of Current and Former Appellate Body Members
- Annex C Information on Appellate Body Reports – 1996 to January 2010
- Annex D Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU – 1996 to 2009
- Annex E Articles of Covered Agreements Addressed in Appellate Body Reports
- Annex F Working Procedures for Appellate Review WT/AB/WP/61
- Abbreviations used in the Table of References to the Covered Agreements and other Instruments and in the Indexes
- Table of References to the Covered Agreements and other Instruments by Article
- Index
- Subject Index by Case (Appellate Body reports)
- Subject Index by Case (Arbitration Awards under Article 21.3(c) of the DSU)
Summary
Safeguards Agreement
General
(WT/DS202/AB/R)
…it is useful to recall that safeguard measures are extraordinary remedies to be taken only in emergency situations. Furthermore, they are remedies that are imposed in the form of import restrictions in the absence of any allegation of an unfair trade practice. In this, safeguard measures differ from, for example, anti-dumping duties and countervailing duties to counter subsidies, which are both measures taken in response to unfair trade practices.…
…part of the raison d’être of Article XIX of the GATT 1994 and the Agreement on Safeguards is, unquestionably, that of giving a WTO Member the possibility, as trade is liberalized, of resorting to an effective remedy in an extraordinary emergency situation that, in the judgement of that Member, makes it necessary to protect a domestic industry temporarily.
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