Turkey’s safeguard measures on cotton yarn: Resolution by consultations

Abstract

This chapter analyses the legality of a measure taken by Turkey in 2008, and extended in 2011, while imposing safeguard duty on cotton yarn from India. The final outcome in this case was a vindication of India’s position that imposition of provisional measures under Article 6 of the Agreement on Safeguards was not permissible in a review investigation—a position which India consistently maintained. This chapter also chronicles the building of public-private partnership involving multiple government departments and private stakeholders such as Texprocil in defending India’s interests in WTO dispute settlement. This chapter also explains how coordinated strategies could achieve the desired outcomes without dragging fairly straight-forward disputes into avoidable, complex, and expensive full-blown WTO dispute settlement.