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Table of contents back to top
I. General
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II. Preamble
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A. Text of the Preamble
B. Interpretation and Application of the Preamble
III.
Article 1 back to top
A. Text of
Article 1
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 1
1. General: Purpose and interpretation of the ATC
IV.
Article 2 back to top
A. Text of
Article 2
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 2
1. General
2. Article 2.1
3. Article 2.4
(a) Jurisprudence (b)
TMB statements
4. Article 2.17
V.
Article 3 back to top
A. Text of
Article 3
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 3
1. General
2. Article 3.1
(a) “restrictions”
VI.
Article 4 back to top
A. Text of
Article 4
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 4
VII.
Article 5 back to top
A. Text of
Article 5
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 5
1. General
2. Article 5.4
(a) ”appropriate action, to the extent necessary to address the
problem”
(b) “Members concerned may agree on other remedies in
consultation”
3. Article 5.6
VIII.
Article 6 back to top
A. Text of
Article 6
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 6
1. General
(a) Elements
of Article 6
(b) Notification as an element of a valid safeguard measure
(c) Scope and basis
of review
(i) Jurisprudence
(ii) TMB
statements
(d) Burden
of proof
(e) Specificity
of data
2. Article
6.2
(a) General
(b) “a
particular product is being imported”
(c) “in
such increased quantities”
(d) “serious
damage, or actual threat thereof”
(i) Concepts of “serious damage, or actual threat thereof”
(ii) Indicators
of serious damage: changes in firm output
(iii) Choice
of investigation period
(e) “the
domestic industry producing like and/or directly competitive
products”
(i) Product-oriented
definition of domestic industry
(ii) “producing”
(iii) “directly
competitive products”
(iv) “and/or”
(v) TMB
statements
(f) Causation
(i) “demonstrably”
(ii) Lag in investigation period
3. Article
6.3
(a) List
of conditions in Article 6.3
4. Article
6.4
(a) Steps
preceding the attribution of serious damage to individual Members
(b) Attribution
requirements
(i) First
requirement: only those Members from whom imports have shown a sharp and
substantial increase
(ii) Second
requirement: comparative analysis
5. Article
6.6
(a) Article
6.6(d)
6. Article
6.7
7. Article
6.10
8. Article
6.11
(a) “highly unusual and critical circumstances”
9. Relationship
with Article 2.4
10. Relationship
with other WTO Agreements
(a) Article
III.2 of the GATT 1994
(b) Article
X:2 of the GATT 1994
IX.
Article 7 back to top
A. Text of
Article 7
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 7
X.
Article 8 back to top
A. Text of
Article 8
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 8
1. General
2. Role of
the TMB
3. Article
8.1
(a) “The
TMB shall consist of a Chairman and 10 members.”
(b) TMB
members “discharge […] their functions on an ad personam
basis”
4. Article
8.2
(a) “The
TMB shall develop its own working procedures”
(b) “consensus
within the TMB”
5. Article
8.3
(a) Standard
of review
6. Article
8.9
7. Article
8.10
8. Article
8.11
(a) “a
major review before the end of each stage of the integration
process”
XI.
Article 9 back to top
A. Text of
Article 9
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 9
XII.
Annex back to top
A. Text of Annex
B. Interpretation and Application
of the Annex
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