Special Safeguards. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Agreement, given the particular sensitivity of the agricultural products, if imports of products originating in a Party, which are the subject of concessions granted under this Agreement, cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the markets or to their domestic regulatory mechanisms, in the other Party, both Parties shall enter into consultations immediately to find an appropriate solution according to rules indicated in Article 21. Pending such solution, the Party concerned may take the measures it deems necessary to repair the situation in domestic industry, in accordance with the relevant WTO rules. CHAPTER III COMMON PROVISIONS
Special Safeguards. 1. Mexico and Venezuela may, in accordance with their Schedule to the Schedule to the Schedule, maintain or adopt a special safeguard in the form of a tariff rate quota on an agricultural good listed in their Section of the Annex to this Article. Notwithstanding Article 3-04, a Party may not apply an over- quota tariff rate or rate of duty under a special safeguard that exceeds the lesser of the following:
Special Safeguards. Notwithstanding other provisions of this Agreement and, in particular, Article 20, if, given the particular sensitivity of the agricultural markets, imports of products originating in a Party, which are subject to concessions granted under this Agreement, cause serious disturbance to the markets of the other Party, the Party concerned shall enter into consultations immediately to find the appropriate solution. Pending such solution, the Party concerned may take the measures it deems necessary.
Special Safeguards. Each Party may, for the agricultural goods specified by each Party in Appendix III.3.2.1 adopt a special safeguard in the form of a tariff rate quota if the volume of imports of that good from the other Party exceeds the trigger level for that good specified in Appendix III.3.2.1
Special Safeguards. Nothing in the present Agreement shall restrict the rights of the Parties to apply special safeguards to imports originating from the territory of the other state Party in compliance with the norms of Article XIX GATT 1944 and the WTO Agreement on safeguards.
Special Safeguards. The AoA provides flexibility to some WTO members to restrict agricul- tural imports by imposing special safeguards to address the import surg- es.4 The special safeguard measures (SSG) are in addition to the general safeguard measures under Article XIX of GATT 1994 and the Agreement on Safeguards. General safeguard measures can be taken only if serious injury or threat thereof to the domestic industry exists. However, SSGs can be applied without demonstrating any adverse effect on domestic pro- duction (Das et al., 2021). The initial conditions for a WTO member to apply SSG against a product include the following: tariffication has been done in respect of the product, and a symbol “SSG” has been marked by the member against the particular product in its Uruguay Round schedule of commitments. Based on an analysis by the WTO Secretariat, while the developed countries have access to the SSG for a large percentage of agri- cultural products, most developing countries do not have such flexibility, as shown in table 4 (WTO, 2017). For instance, India does not have any 4. Article 5 of the Agreement on Agriculture. SSG entitlement to protect its farmers from the adverse impact of import surges. Table 4: SSG entitlements across select members of the WTO Member Percentage of Agricultural Tariff Lines Covered by SSG (%) Switzerland 53 Norway 49 Botswana 40 Namibia 39 South Africa 39 Mexico 32 Venezuela 32 European Union 31 Colombia 27 Morocco 23 Barbados 18 Philippines 16 Canada 13 Costa Rica 12 Japan 10 United States 10 Korea, Republic of 8 Indonesia 1
Special Safeguards. The Agreement provides for special safeguard measures that allow either party to take an “emergency action” of re-imposing tariffs on imports of textiles or apparel goods that cause or threaten serious damage to a domestic industry. A Party applying emergency action must provide the other Party with mutually agreed compensation.
