Safeguards and Regional Integration: Some Comments on "Parallelism" in the WTO Jurisprudence

Professor Tsai- Yu Lin

Department of International Business, Soochow University

Outlines

I. What questions have arisen regarding GATT Articles XXIV and XIX?

II. WTO Jurisprudence: Parallelism Requirement in the context of Safeguard Agreement 

III. Comments on Parallelism Requirement: Complicating more than Resolving Questions? 

IV. Discussion & Conclusion