New Zealand Legislation: Bills

3A Overview of safeguards

• (1) Safeguard measures and provisional safeguard duties imposed under this Act are trade remedies.

  (2) Trade remedies are remedies against certain imports that are causing injury to New Zealand industries.

  (3) New Zealand's other trade remedies are—

  • (a) anti-dumping duties under the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 in relation to goods that are imported into New Zealand at less than their normal value in the exporting country:

  • (b) countervailing duties under the Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988 in relation to goods imported into New Zealand that are subsidised by a foreign government:

  • (c) transitional safeguard measures (including provisional ones) under sections 15A to 15H of the Tariff Act 1988 in relation to imports from a country that is a party to certain free trade agreements with New Zealand.

  (4) This section is intended as a guide only.