Traduction de «autolimitazione delle esportazioni » (Italien → Anglais) :

The Agreement on Safeguards meets the need to clarify and reinforce the disciplines of GATT 1994, and specifically those of Article XIX. That Agreement requires the elimination of safeguard measures which escape those rules, such as voluntary export restraints, orderly marketing arrangements and any other similar import or export arrangements.

The Agreement prohibits so-called 'grey zone' measures such as voluntary export restraint or other market sharing arrangements.

In determining the duration of the infringement, the Commission took the view that, although the Europe-Japan Club had first met in 1977, the beginning of 1990 should be taken as the starting date of the infringement since, between 1977 and 1990, voluntary agreements on restraint of imports concluded between the European Community and Japan had been in force.

1. Where an agreement concluded between the Community and a third country provides for the application of voluntary restraint to exports from that country to the Community, and where the Community decides to propose or to accept that the third country concerned should increase its exports to the Community of the product in question, the decision by the Community shall be taken under the procedure laid down in Article 11 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1023/70 (1) of 25 May 1970 establishing a common procedure for administering quantitative quotas, due regard being had for: (a) the requirements of economic and commercial policy, whether au ...[+++]tonomous or conventional;

Now the United States is seeking to impose anti-dumping and countervailing duties against Community exporters covering exports to the US over exactly the same period, even though it had been agreed that import restraints would settle any question of duties or injury while the VRAs lasted.

The Agreement prohibits so-called 'grey zone' measures such as voluntary export restraint or other market sharing arrangements.