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Also in this section:
- General
- Preamble
- Article 1
- Article 2
- Article 3
- Article 4
- Article 5
- Article 6
- Article 7
- Article 8
- Article 9
- Annex
Table of contents
II. Preamble back to top
A. Text of the Preamble
B. Interpretation and Application of the Preamble
A. Text of
Article 1
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 1
1. General: Purpose and interpretation of the ATC
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
A. Text of
Article 3
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 3
1. General
2. Article 3.1
A. Text of
Article 4
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 4
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
A. Text of
Article 6
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 6
1. General
(b) Notification as an element of a valid safeguard measure
(i) Jurisprudence
(ii) TMB statements
(d) Burden of proof
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
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(iii) “directly competitive products”
(iv) “a²Ô»å/´Ç°ù”
(v) TMB statements
(f) Causation
(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
(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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍø×ÊÁÏ Agreements
(a) Article III.2 of the GATT 1994
(b) Article X:2 of the GATT 1994
A. Text of
Article 7
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 7
A. Text of
Article 8
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 8
1. General
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 ²ú²¹²õ¾±²õ”
4. Article 8.2
(a) “The TMB shall develop its own working procedures”
(b) “consensus within the TMB”
5. Article 8.3
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”
A. Text of
Article 9
B. Interpretation and Application
of Article 9
A. Text of Annex
B. Interpretation and Application
of the Annex