Special Agricultural Safeguard (SAE)

Special Agricultural Safeguard (SAE) is understood as a temporary trade defence measure for the producers of a country, which empowers the customs authorities of the importing country to apply, during the course of the calendar year, higher tariffs than those resulting from the application of the Tariff Relief Program in the DR-Cafta, provided that the volume of imports reaches the trigger level determined for each product or group of products. This trade defence mechanism is applied in accordance with Article 3.15 and Annex 3.15 on Agricultural Safeguard Measures of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the United States of America (DR-CAFTA) and Decree 535-06 that establishes the Regulations for the application of the Agricultural Safeguard Measures in DR-CAFTA.