How is Turkish Legislation on Safeguards?
Turkish safeguards legislation sets rules forth for application of safeguards measures and surveillance for imports. Safeguard measures are actions taken on the increased imports of a certain product, where such imports have caused or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry. They can take the form of a quantitative restriction (quota). Surveillance is a tool for finding out quickly the trend in current and foreseeable imports, when the trend threatens to cause injury to the domestic producers. Turkey has two different regulations on safeguard measures. One is defined as Legislation on the Safeguard Measures and Surveillance for Imports of Products Originating in Certain Countries and designed specially for state trading countries and transition economies which are not members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The other is called Legislation on Safeguard Measures and Surveillance for Imports and implemented on the importation of products originating in countries w
