WTO members have initiated only five of the restrictions — called “safeguards” in WTO parlance — so far this year, down from eight in all of 2007. The number of investigations peaked in 2002 at 34.

The WTO report covers the whole of 2008 and looks back to 1995, so does not reflect fears of growing protectionism that have emerged since the global financial crisis burst.

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