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Special Safeguard Measures under the Agreement on Agriculture: A Jurisprudential Analysis

Tarun Jain

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One of the major measures embedded in the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture is the 'Special Safeguard Measures' (SSM). This has been provided as an exception to the general rule of abolition of quotas and freedom of trade for the members of this international institution to protect their domestic markets for agricultural products from the sudden surges in agricultural imports. This paper deals with various legal issues, which the SSM is facing, where the aim shall be to critically evaluate the provision, its practical application, and its implications and thus examine its contours and ambit.

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One of the major measures embedded in the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture is the 'Special Safeguard Measures' (SSM). This has been provided as an exception to the general rule of abolition of quotas and freedom of trade for the members of this international institution to protect their domestic markets for agricultural products from the sudden surges in agricultural imports. This paper deals with various legal issues, which the SSM is facing, where the aim shall be to critically evaluate the provision, its practical application, and its implications and thus examine its contours and ambit.

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One of the major measures embedded in the WTO's Agreement on Agriculture is the 'Special Safeguard Measures' (SSM). This has been provided as an exception to the general rule of abolition of quotas and freedom of trade for the members of this international institution to protect their domestic markets for agricultural products from the sudden surges in agricultural imports. This paper deals with various legal issues, which the SSM is facing, where the aim shall be to critically evaluate the provision, its practical application, and its implications and thus examine its contours and ambit.

Key concepts: Safeguard, Agriculture, Agreement on Agriculture, International trade, Institution, Market access, Business, Law and economics

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