On Special Safeguards

In the process of China entry negotiation, some member parties worried that after entry the violent augment of export commodities would be hurtful to their domestic markets and industries, so they bring forward there must be reservations on applying "Safeguard Mechanism Agreement" to China. Finally, the reservation embodied in Article 16 of Protocol on the Accession of the People's Republic of China, the transitional product-specific safeguard mechanism, and detailed regulations of Paragraph 245 to 250 of "China's Entry Workgroup Report". After China's Entry, owing to the special regulated "the transitional product-specific safeguard mechanism", quite many states enact corresponding domestic legislation according that provision, then implement it in practice, consequently it must be hurtful to our domestic corresponding industries.The main studying process and way of the present thesis are as follows: firstly, the article reviews the historical origin and evolution of specific safeguard mechanism, from the process originally applied to Japan or Eastern-European states then to applied to China, so bring forward the point of view that the specific safeguard mechanism is mainly applied to non-market-economy states. Secondly, on the basis of respectively expounding the brief conception of World Trade Organization's safeguard measure and specific safeguard mechanism, the article analyzes the difference between the WTO's safeguard measure and...