What economic factors should the Commission take into account in determining serious injury regarding General safeguard measures?

09/05/2024 02:40 - 106 Views

The Commission shall consider all relevant economic factors, including:


-    the rate and amount of the increase in imports of the product under consideration in absolute or relative terms;


-    the share of the domestic market taken by the increased imports;


-    changes in the level of sales, prices, production, productivity, capacity utilization, inventories, profits and losses, wages and employment of the domestic industry;


-    significant idling of productive facilities in the domestic industry including the closure of plants or underutilization of production capacity;


-    inability of a significant number of firms to carry out domestic production at a profit; and


-    significant unemployment or underemployment within the domestic industry.


Injury is not an element in the imposition of special safeguard measure.
 

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