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Why are safeguards under the WTO so unpopular?

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BOWN, CHAD P.
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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 natural question to consider is why haven t countries resorted to the WTO s safeguards provisions at a similar pace? This paper focuses on the economic incentives generated by reforms in the Uruguay Round, and argues that in order to address the relative unpopularity of the application of safeguards measures, further reforms must be made to WTO s Antidumping Agreement and the rules of the Dispute Settlement Understanding.

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Article provided by Cambridge University Press in its journal World Trade Review.

Volume (Year): 1 (2002)
Issue (Month): 01 (March)
Pages: 47-62
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  1. Bown, Chad P., 2005. "Trade remedies and World Trade Organization dispute settlement : Why are so few challenged?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3540, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  2. Chad P. Bown, 2004. ""How Different Are Safeguards from Antidumping? Evidence from US Trade Policies Toward Steel"," Econometric Society 2004 North American Summer Meetings 434, Econometric Society. [Downloadable!]
  3. Pao-Li Chang, 2004. "The Politics of WTO Enforcement Mechanism," Working Papers 04-2004, Singapore Management University, School of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Taiju Kitano & Hiroshi Ohashi, 2009. "Did US Safeguards Resuscitate Harley-Davidson in the 1980s?," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-612, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. [Downloadable!]
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