1, the general exception in Article 20 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade;
2. The "security exception" stipulated in Article 2 1 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade is a regulation and prohibition made to protect the basic national security interests.
Article 24 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade stipulates that "territorial scope of application-border trade-customs union and free trade zone".
Most-favored-nation treatment refers to the preferential treatment given to each other by two contracting States in trade, navigation, tariff collection or the legal status of citizens, which is no less than or even less than that given to any third country. The clauses in the treaty that stipulate such treatment are called most-favoured-nation clauses.
legal ground
General exception to Article 20 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade The provisions of this Agreement shall not be interpreted as prohibiting contracting parties from taking or strengthening the following measures, provided that the measures implemented shall not constitute arbitrary or unreasonable differential treatment for countries in the same situation or disguised restrictions on international trade: (a) measures necessary for safeguarding public morality; (b) Necessary measures to protect the life or health of human beings, animals and plants; (c) Measures relating to the import and export of gold or silver; (d) Necessary measures to ensure the implementation of certain laws or regulations that are not in conflict with the provisions of this Agreement, including necessary measures to strengthen customs laws or regulations, strengthen the monopoly implemented according to Article 2, paragraph 4, and Article 14 of this Agreement, protect patents, trademarks and copyrights, and prevent fraud; (e) Measures related to the products of criminals; Measures taken to protect cultural relics of artistic, historical or archaeological value in the country; (g) Relevant measures for effective protection of natural resources that may be exhausted should be coordinated with domestic measures to restrict production and consumption; (h) If the principles followed in the Commodity Agreement have been put forward to the parties, the parties have not raised any objections. Or the commodity agreement itself has been proposed to all parties, and all parties have not expressed any objection, and the measures taken to fulfill the obligations assumed by such international commodity agreements; (i) During the period when the price of domestic raw materials is lower than the international price level, as part of the government's stabilization plan, it is necessary to take measures to restrict the export of these raw materials to ensure the basic demand of domestic processing industry; However, restrictions shall not be used to increase or protect the export of such domestic industries, nor shall they deviate from the relevant non-discrimination provisions of this Agreement; (j) Necessary measures for obtaining or distributing products in case of general or local shortage; However, the measures taken must conform to the following principles: all contracting parties have the right to share the international supply share of these products fairly, and if the measures taken are inconsistent with other provisions of this Agreement, they should be stopped immediately when the conditions leading to the implementation of these measures no longer exist. No later than1June 30, 960, all contracting parties shall check the requirements of this clause.