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- Nondiscrimination and the WTO Agreement on Safeguards
- Most-favored-nation treatment, i.e., nondiscrimination among trading partners, is a fundamental principle of the GATT/WTO system. The WTO Agreement on Safeguards has thus been seen as encouraging use of a preferred form of contingent protection relative to antidumping and other inherently discriminatory measures. In practice, however, safeguard protection may also incorporate...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Why Are Safeguards Under the WTO so Unpopular?
- In recent years, more countries have increasingly turned to explicit, codified trade policy instruments of the international trading system such as antidumping measures. Countries have also increasingly participated in the institutions established to facilitate trade in the international system, such as the WTO's Dispute Settlement Understanding. Given these phenomena, a...
- White papers 2001-11-01
- The WTO Agreement on Safeguards: An Empirical Analysis of Discriminatory Impact
- The Uruguay Round Agreement on Safeguards represents an effort to improve the GATT safeguards SG process and thereby encourage countries to choose this option over antidumping and "Gray-area" measures such as bilaterally negotiated export restraints. This paper offers a first detailed analysis of the way safeguards initiated under the agreement...
- White papers 2003-10-01
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