The Availability of National Security Measures under WTO Law and Options for Response
Executive Summary (Summary of a project undertaken for Trade Law Bureau, Government of Canada)* (Full report can be read here)** The seventy years following the establishment of the multilateral trading regime with the GATT 1947 have seen very few invocations of national security exceptions to treaty obligations. Recently, this trend has begun to change. The use of Article XXI of the GATT 1994 has seen a significant upswing during 2017 and 2018. The current flurry of trade-di