The Challenge of Safeguards in the WTO (Paperback)

Introduction; Part I. Foundation of the Safeguard Mechanism: 1. History of the safeguard mechanism; 2. The rationale of the safeguard mechanism; Part II. The Right to Apply a Safeguard: 3. Period of investigation and products at issue; 4. Unforeseen developments and the effect of GATT obligations; 5. Increase in imports; 6. Serious injury; 7. Causal link; Part III. Application of a Safeguard: 8. Scope of a safeguard; 9. Extent of a safeguard; 10. Form of a safeguard; 11. Temporal application and provisional safeguards; Part IV. Procedures for the Application of Safeguards: 12. Domestic investigation; 13. Multilateral proceedings; Concluding remarks.