Date: 2019
Type: Working Paper
Indonesia – safeguard on certain iron or steel products : if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is not a duck
Working Paper, EUI RSCAS, 2019/83, Global Governance Programme-372, Global Economics
PRUSA, Thomas J., VERMULST, Edwin, Indonesia – safeguard on certain iron or steel products : if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it is not a duck, EUI RSCAS, 2019/83, Global Governance Programme-372, Global Economics - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64550
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In July 2014 Indonesia implemented a safeguard tariff on galvalume, a type of galvanized flat-rolled steel. Chinese Taipei and Viet Nam challenged the measure, mainly claiming that Indonesia’s administering authority failed to satisfy various substantive and procedural requirements of the GATT 1994 and the Safeguards Agreement. The Panel and AB found that the tariff was not a safeguard measure but rather was a simple increase in Indonesia’s applied rate. Interestingly, Viet Nam, the largest import supplier, is a member of a free trade area with Indonesia, meaning Viet Nam is not subject to the MFN rate. Viet Nam’s preferential tariff treatment likely influenced Indonesia’s decision to claim the action was a safeguard. Ironically, even though the Appellate Body essentially rejected its claims, the ruling benefits Viet Nam.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64550
ISSN: 1028-3625
Series/Number: EUI RSCAS; 2019/83; Global Governance Programme-372; Global Economics
Publisher: European University Institute
Keyword(s): Global safeguard Bound tariff Galvalume