TY - GEN TI - Special products and the special safeguard mechanism: strategic options for developing countries PB - International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) KW - INTERNATIONAL TRADE KW - AGRICULTURE KW - TRADE AGREEMENTS KW - DEVELOPING COUNTRIES KW - SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT KW - AGRICULTURAL TRADE N2 - Aims to synthesize the knowledge generated through a fact-finding exercise and convey its main findings to policy makers, negotiators, civil society representatives, farmers groups, and academics. Proposes a possibly methodology that governments could follow when developing their national lists of special products. Also examines how import surges over the last twenty years have contributed to the displacement of domestic production ER -