The China Specific Safeguard: Some Background

For those of you looking for background on the China specific safeguard, check out the following:

-- The China Accession Protocol, at Section 16, "Transitional Product-Specific Safeguard Mechanism", for the full text.

-- The following articles, which I have not read but look like they would be useful (two of them are available online):

Yong-Shik Lee, "The Specific Safeguard Mechanism in the Protocol on China’s Accession to the WTO: A Serious Step Backward from the Achievement of the Uruguay Round," 5 J. WORLD INTEL. PROP. 219, 227 (2002).

"Product-Specific Safeguard in China's WTO Accession Agreement: An Analysis of Its Terms and Its Initial Application in Section 421 Investigations", Jing Ma

"Transitional Product Specific Safeguard Mechanism: A WTO-Minus measure of the Protocol on the Accession of the People’s Republic of China and its implication on the WTO legal system," Eun Kyeong Lee