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The Committee reviewed notifications of new national safeguard legislation and regulations from Botswana. It also continued its review of legislative notifications from Liberia and the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n
The Committee reviewed 19 members’ notifications of safeguard actions, with those taken by Indonesia (seven), Madagascar, the Philippines and T\u00fcrkiye (four each) accounting for almost 50 per cent of all the safeguard actions reviewed.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Among the actions that attracted the most interventions were: Egypt’s three \u00a0<\/span>investigations on iron and steel products, with four members raising concerns; the European Union’s measure on certain ferro-alloying elements, with five members raising concerns; the European Union’s investigation on grain-oriented electrical steel, with five members raising concerns; and the United Kingdom’s adjustment of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) applied under its measure on certain steel products, with six members making interventions.<\/p>\n Referring to various requests for consultations and proposals to suspend concessions or other obligations previously notified by members to the Committee on Safeguards, the United States explained that it did not consider the tariffs imposed by the US President referenced in these notifications to be safeguard actions. According to the United States, these actions were maintained pursuant to the essential security exception in Article XXI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1994. The United States considered that no basis existed, therefore, for these members to request consultations or propose the suspension of concessions under the Safeguards Agreement with respect to the US measures. India disagreed with the US characterization of its measures and asserted that based on their characteristics they appeared to be within the scope of the Agreement on Safeguards. Brazil and China expressed concern about the broader implications of the US measures for the multilateral trading system and global supply chains. Brazil and India said that they would continue to closely monitor developments concerning these measures.<\/span><\/p>\nUS response to certain requests for consultations and proposed suspensions of concessions<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Online portal for safeguard notifications\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n