Safeguard Measures Of European Union

European Union , as a specific regional organization , plays much greater role in the international political and economical relationship . It is the most successful and active organization , whose law system on external trade impact the international trade relation significantly . Safeguard Measures of European Union is a sort of trade protection measures included in the law system on external trade , which occurred from the establishment of zollverein in 1968 to protect its member state' s industry from being damaged by importing products .With much development and practice , European Union's safeguard measures have become an integrated system with its own features compared with that of other country and WTO . Two different rules were adopted by EU' s safeguard measures : one applies to the market economy states , and the other is specific for those non-market-economy states , for instance China . After China entered into WTO , EU legislated a new trade rule for China according to the requirement of the enter protocol , which includes TPSSM , one of the enter promises of China . Different from traditional safeguard measures , TPSSM with lower criterion entitles EU to apply emergent measures to China only .This means great challenge for Chinese enterprises to develop export and foreign trade communion . However, as a new member of WTO , China has to perform her enter promise continuously enhancing the concession degree and coping with the increasing TPSSM investigations actively . Anyway WTO just like a mystic box, whose open will confront us with all kinds of positive and negative influence . For us law-studier , to research the European law system including the safeguard measures , that is a sort of trade remedy measures , is our mission to supply those abroad exploiters some useful materials and help them reduce damage to the lowest degree .