Applying Safeguard Measures in Jordan: A Framework for Protecting the Domestic Industry in Jordan

Many countries have undertaken commitments to liberalize trade by lowering tariffs and non-tariff barriers.

However, safeguard measures are intended to shield temporarily a domestic industry from increased imports that threaten to harm the domestic industry. Jordan, as member of the World Trade Organization (WTO), enacted its own laws to comply with WTO requirements. Law No. 50/2002 on the Protection of National Production sets conditions for imposing safeguard measures.