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CHAPTER 7

TRADE REMEDIES

SECTION A
RCEP SAFEGUARD MEASURES

Article 7.1: Definitions

For the purposes of this Chapter:

(a) confidential information includes information which is
provided on a confidential basis and which is by its nature
confidential (for example, because its disclosure would be
of significant competitive advantage to a competitor or
because its disclosure would have a significantly adverse
effect upon a person supplying the information or upon a
person from whom that person acquired the information);

(b) customs duty means customs duties as defined in
subparagraph (b) of Article 2.1 (Definitions);

(c) domestic industry means, with respect to an imported
good, the producers as a whole of the like or directly
competitive goods operating within the territory of a Party,
or those producers whose collective output of the like or
directly competitive goods constitutes a major proportion of
the total domestic production of that good;

(d) originating good means an originating good as defined in
subparagraph (l) of Article 3.1 (Definitions);

(e) provisional RCEP safeguard measure means a
safeguard measure described in paragraph 1 of Article 7.8
(Provisional RCEP Safeguard Measures);

(f) serious injury means a significant overall impairment in
the position of a domestic industry;

(g) threat of serious injury means serious injury that, on the
basis of facts and not merely on allegation, conjecture, or
remote possibility, is clearly imminent;

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