...For Elimination of the Restraints GATT Article XIX authorizes the imposition of import restrictions "to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy [the] injury." Article XIX does not authorize permanent protection, but neither does it require that...

...directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the 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. (b) If any product,...

...directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the 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. (b) If any product,...

...the procedural requirements in paragraphs 2 and 3, "shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the 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". Thus, in taking...

...directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the 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." Petitions and...

...Government of either country shall be free to withdraw the concession, in whole or in part, or to modify it to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent such injury". Quoted in Jackson (1969), p. 554. As safeguard clauses in general, the exception (Article...

...directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product, and to the 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. (b) If any product,...

...bilateral- track safeguard only once, and for no more than three years, in contrast to the GATT's vague "for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury." After the ten-year phase-in period, however, new bilateral safeguards are permissible only "by mutual...

...producers. Under these circumstances, a country may temporarily suspend performance of its GATT obligations "to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury. "170The nation may raise tariffs, or impose quotas or nontariff barriers, but must compensate the countries...

...directly competitive products, the contracting party shall be free, in respect of such product and to the extent and for such time as may be necessary to prevent such injury, to suspend the obligation in whole or in part or to withdraw or modify the concession."...