Emergency actions in the form of additional duties or import quotas applied to fairly traded imports which nevertheless cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers.
Safeguards action can be taken when a country experiences a dramatic increase in imports. The action taken is to increase tariffs. Safeguards can only be taken if there is injury or threat of injury to domestic firms. Further, the increased tariffs must be temporary in nature, since they are intended to allow the domestic industry to adjust to the new import competition, as aopposed to protecting them from it indefinitely.
The system of control and handling of nuclear materials that subjects them to domestic and international (IAEA) inspections as agreed upon in treaties and agreements and in domestic legislation.
(1) An integrated system of physical protection, material accounting, and material control measures designed to deter, prevent, detect, and respond to unauthorized possession, use, or sabotage of nuclear material. (2) Information not otherwise classified as National Security Information or Restricted Data which specifically identifies a licensee's or applicant's detailed, (1) security measures for the physical protection of special nuclear material, or (2) security measures for the physical protection and location of certain plant equipment vital to the safety of production or utilization facilities. Reference: 10CFR73.
a sound foundation for development of technical arrangements to provide a high degree of probability that undeclared nuclear activity would be detected
Temporary protection (generally quantitative restrictions) given to domestic industries in order to allow them the time required to adjust to damaging import surges. Most safeguard measures are regulated by Article XIX of GATT 1994 (as interpreted by the WTO Agreement on Safeguards), but some agreements have their own rules, for example textiles and clothing, and agriculture.
Mechanisms used to ensure that people are kept safe and not put at increased risk because of vulnerabilities. Safeguards include formal safeguards as provided by accreditation standards and legislation, and informal safeguards provided through community visibility, caring, supportive relationships, informal monitoring and increased social consciousness.
Temporary measures (such as tariffs or quotas) explicitly designed to slow rapidly increasing imports in order to allow the domestic industry to adjust to the heightened competition. GATT's safeguard provision, Article XIX, recognizes a country's right to withdraw or modify concessions granted earlier or to impose new restrictions if a product is “being imported in such increased quantities . . . as to cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers” and to maintain such restrictions “for such time as may be necessary to prevent or remedy such injury.” The WTO Agreement on Safeguards establishes rules for the application of the safeguard measures contained in GATT Article XIX. Safeguard actions are known in the US as escape clause actions, and the authority to take such actions is provided for in various US laws, most prominently Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended.
Technical and inspection measures for verifying that nuclear materials are not being diverted from civil to other uses. See also strengthened safeguards.
Countermeasures, specifications, or controls, consisting of actions taken to decrease the organizations existing degree of vulnerability to a given threat probability, that the threat will occur
