...ITC report at I- 1 7. 40 ITC report at 1-22. ITC report at top of page 1-6. 4: ITC report at 11-25. such increased quantities and under such conditions...competitive products, the contracting party shall be free (...) to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or to withdraw or modify the concession". A WTO...

...based on this concept. 28 GATT Art. XIX: 1 (a) reads: 'If [there are] increased quantities and . . . serious injury to domestic producers in that territory...competitive products, the contracting party shall be free to suspend . . .' (emphasis added). 29 By the same token, one could argue that the term 'directly competitive'...

...of particular products". This allowed safeguard measures to be adopted where a product is imported in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten serious injury to like or directly competing products. Two further conditions were that the increase in imports must...

...incurred by a contracting party under this Agreement, including tariff concessions, any product is being imported into the territory of that contracting party...territory of like or directly competitive products." But this is an exceptional tool for exceptional situations. Consequently, "social clauses" would have...

...and of the effect of obligations incurred, including tariff concessions, a product is being imported in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry that produces like or directly competitive products'....

...safeguard measure on a product only if that Member has determined that the product is 'being imported ... in such increased quantities' and under such conditions as to cause or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry that produces like products. The United States claimed...

...cannot exceed 4 years or the 10-year transitional period, and no measure shall be maintained "except to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury and to facilitate adjustment." (Article 10.2.(a)(i)) The FTA also recognizes...

...incurred by a contracting party under this Agreement, including tariff concessions, any product is being imported into the territory of that contracting party...extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury, to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or to withdraw or modify the concession."...

...Agreement, including tariff concessions, any product is being imported into the territory of that Member in such increased quantities and under such conditions...territory of like or directly competitive products, the Member shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the extent and for such -"* United States'...

...Agreement, including tariff concessions, any product is being imported in the territory ofthat [Member] in such increased quantities and under such conditions...domestic producers in that territory of like or directly competing products, the [Member] shall be free ... to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or...