Article 11 Prohibition and Elimination of Certain Measures

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Article 11 Prohibition and Elimination of Certain Measures is a provision of the WTO Agreement on Safeguards that restricts the use of certain trade-restrictive actions by members beyond those explicitly allowed as safeguard measures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf WTO legal provision
treaty provision
adoptedIn Uruguay Round (1986–1994)
surface form: Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations
appliesTo World Trade Organization member states
surface form: WTO Members
authenticText WTO legal texts as deposited with the Director-General of the WTO
basedOn non-discrimination principle in WTO law
transparency principle in WTO law
bindingOn all WTO Members without reservation
citationForm Article 11 of the Agreement on Safeguards
complements notification and transparency obligations in the Agreement on Safeguards
enforcedBy WTO dispute settlement
surface form: WTO dispute settlement system
enteredIntoForceOn 1 January 1995
enteredIntoForceWith Agreement on Safeguards
interpretedBy WTO Appellate Body
WTO panels
language English
French
Spanish
legalEffect limits Members from using non-agreed safeguard-type instruments
requires conformity of safeguard measures with the Agreement on Safeguards
legalNature mandatory obligation
legalSystem World Trade Organization law
negotiatedBy GATT contracting parties
surface form: GATT Contracting Parties
objective to prevent bilateral or plurilateral arrangements that restrict trade outside WTO rules
to strengthen multilateral control over safeguard measures
partOf Agreement on Safeguards
WTO Agreement on Safeguards
surface form: World Trade Organization Agreement on Safeguards
prohibits grey-area measures related to imports
orderly marketing arrangements not consistent with the Agreement on Safeguards
similar export or import restrictive arrangements not consistent with the Agreement on Safeguards
voluntary export restraints not consistent with the Agreement on Safeguards
purpose to ensure that safeguard action is taken only under the Agreement on Safeguards
to prevent circumvention of safeguard disciplines
to prohibit certain non-conforming safeguard-type measures
relatedTo Article 1 of the Agreement on Safeguards
Article 19 of the GATT 1994
Article 2 of the Agreement on Safeguards
requires elimination of existing grey-area measures within a transition period
that safeguard-type restrictions be applied only pursuant to the Agreement on Safeguards
scope measures taken by WTO Members affecting imports
subjectMatter safeguard measures
trade-restrictive measures
successorTo disciplines on grey-area measures under the pre-WTO safeguard regime

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WTO Agreement on Safeguards contains Article 11 Prohibition and Elimination of Certain Measures