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Chapter Seven: Trade Remedies – Text of the Canada-Korea Free Trade Agreement

Section A – Safeguard Measures

Article 7.1: Article XIX of the GATT 1994 and the Safeguards Agreement

1. Each Party retains its rights and obligations under Article XIX of the GATT 1994, the Safeguards Agreement, and any successor agreements. This Agreement does not confer additional rights or obligations on the Parties with regard to measures taken pursuant to Article XIX of the GATT 1994 and the Safeguards Agreement, except that a Party taking a global safeguard measure may exclude imports of an originating good of the other Party from such measure if those imports are not a substantial cause of serious injury or threat thereof.

2. A Party shall not apply or maintain, with respect to the same good, at the same time:

Article 7.2: Bilateral Safeguard Measures

1. Subject to paragraph 2, if a good originating in the territory of a Party, as a result of the reduction or elimination of a customs duty provided for under this Agreement, is being imported into the territory of the other Party in such increased quantities and under such conditions that the imports of the good from that Party alone constitute a substantial cause of serious injury, or threat thereof, to a domestic industry producing a like or directly competitive good, the Party into whose territory the good is being imported may, to the minimum extent necessary to remedy or prevent the injury:

2. The following conditions and limitations apply to a proceeding that may result in the application of a safeguard measure pursuant to paragraph 1:

3.

4. The right of suspension referred to in paragraph 3 shall not be exercised for the first 24 months during which a safeguard measure is in effect, provided that the safeguard measure conforms to the provisions of this Agreement.

Article 7.3: Provisional Safeguard Measures

1. In critical circumstances, if delay would cause damage that would be difficult to repair, a Party may apply a safeguard measure on a provisional basis pursuant to a preliminary determination by its competent investigating authority that there is clear evidence that imports of an originating good from the other Party have increased as a result of the reduction or elimination of a customs duty under this Agreement, and that those imports constitute a substantial cause of serious injury, or threat thereof, to the domestic industry.

2. Before a Party’s competent investigating authority may make a preliminary determination, that Party shall publish a public notice in its official journal setting forth how interested parties, including importers and exporters, may obtain a non-confidential copy of the application requesting a provisional safeguard measure, and shall provide interested parties with at least 20 days after the date the Party publishes the notice to submit evidence and views regarding the application of a provisional safeguard measure. A Party shall not apply a provisional safeguard measure until at least 45 days after the date its competent investigating authority initiates an investigation.

3. The duration of any provisional safeguard measure shall not exceed 200 days, during which time the applying Party shall comply with the requirements of Article 7.5.4.

4. The applying Party shall promptly refund any customs duty increases if the investigation described in Article 7.5.4 does not result in a finding that the requirements of Article 7.2.1 are met. The duration of any provisional safeguard measure shall be counted as part of the period described in Article 7.2.2(c).

Article 7.4: Application of Safeguard Measures

A safeguard measure with respect to a good may only be applied during the transition period for that good.

Article 7.5: Administration of Safeguard Measures

1. Each Party shall ensure the consistent, impartial, and reasonable administration of its laws, regulations, decisions, and rulings governing all safeguard measures.

2. Each Party shall entrust determinations of serious injury, or threat thereof, in safeguard measure proceedings to a competent investigating authority, subject to review by judicial or administrative tribunals, to the extent provided by its domestic law. Negative injury determinations are not subject to modification, except by such review. Each Party shall provide the competent investigating authority empowered under its domestic law to conduct those proceedings with the necessary resources to enable that Party to fulfil its duties.

3. Each Party shall adopt or maintain equitable, timely, transparent, and effective procedures for safeguard measure proceedings, in accordance with the requirements set out in paragraph 4.

4. A Party may apply a safeguard measure only following an investigation by the Party’s competent investigating authority in accordance with Articles 3 and 4.2 of the Safeguards Agreement. To this end, Articles 3 and 4.2 of the Safeguards Agreement are incorporated into and made part of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis.

Article 7.6: Dispute Settlement in Safeguard Measures Matters

A Party shall not request the establishment of a panel under Article 21.6 (Establishment of a Panel) regarding proposed safeguard measures.

Section B – Antidumping and Countervailing Duties

Article 7.7: Antidumping and Countervailing Duties

Relation to Other Agreements

1.

Notification and Consultation

2. Upon receipt by a Party’s competent authority of a properly documented antidumping or countervailing duty application in respect of imports from the other Party, and before initiating an investigation, that Party shall provide written notification to the other Party of its receipt of the application and afford the other Party a meeting or other similar opportunity regarding the application, consistent with that Party’s domestic law.

Lesser duty

3.

Undertakings

4.

Section C – Committee on Trade Remedies

Article 7.8: Committee on Trade Remedies

1. The Parties hereby establish a Committee on Trade Remedies, composed of representatives at an appropriate level from relevant agencies of each Party who have responsibility for trade remedies matters, including antidumping, subsidies and countervailing measures, and safeguards issues.

2. The functions of the Committee, which operates on the basis of consensus in respect of all matters, are to:

3. The Committee shall meet at least once a year and may meet more frequently as agreed by the Parties.

Section D – Definitions

Article 7.9: Definitions

For the purposes of this Chapter:
competent investigating authority means:

or their respective successors;

domestic industry means the producers as a whole of the like or directly competitive good operating in the territory of a Party or producers whose collective production of the like or directly competitive good constitutes a major proportion of the total domestic production of those goods;

safeguard measure means a measure described in Article 7.2;

serious injury means a significant overall impairment of a domestic industry;

substantial cause means a cause that is important and not less important than any other cause;

threat of serious injury means serious injury that, on the basis of facts and not merely on allegation, conjecture, or remote possibility, is clearly imminent; and

transition period means the period beginning on the date of entry into force of this Agreement and ending on the date that is the earliest of:

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