What the official record says
This Act is the Trade (Safeguard Measures) Act . This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent. The purpose of this Act is to enable New Zealand to apply safeguard measures and provisional safeguard duties at its border in accordance with the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization adopted at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994 (the ). Such measures and duties are intended to— provide temporary protection to a domestic industry from serious injury caused by increased imports; and facilitate adjustment by a domestic industry to increased competition from increased imports. Safeguard measures and provisional safeguard duties imposed under this Act are trade remedies. Trade remedies are remedies against certain imports that are causing injury to