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Table of contents back to top
I. Preamble
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A. Text of the Preamble
B. Interpretation and Application of the Preamble
II.
Article 1 back to top
A. Text of
Article 1
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 1
1. General
2. Article 1.2
(a) “meaningful increases in access possibilities for small
suppliers”
(b) Footnote 1 to Article 1
3. Article 1.4
4. Article 1.5
III.
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 2.6
(a) The issue of “ex-positions”
5. Article 2.7(b)
6. Article 2.8
7. Article 2.11
8. Articles 2.13 and 2.14
(a) Implementation of the growth-on-growth provisions
9. Article 2.17
10. Article 2.18
11. Article 2.21
IV.
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”
3. Article 3.2(b)
V.
Article 4 back to top
A. Text of
Article 4
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 4
1. General
VI.
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
VII.
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) Introduction
of a restraint under Article 6 without notification to the TMB
(c) Scope
of review
(i) Jurisprudence
(ii) TMB
statements
(d) Burden
of proof
(e) Standard
of review
(f) 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 and threat of serious damage”
(ii) Indicators
of serious damage
(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) Choice
of 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(a)
(b) Article
6.6(d)
6. Article
6.7
7. Article
6.10
8. Article
6.11
(a) Consultation
requirements
(b) Notification
requirements
(c) “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
VIII.
Article 7 back to top
A. Text of
Article 7
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 7
IX.
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”
X.
Article 9 back to top
A. Text of
Article 9
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 9
XI.
Annex back to top
A. Text of Annex
B. Interpretation and Application
of Annex
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