In order to respond to the trend in fair trade and market liberalization for developed economies, Korea has recently pursued for import liberalization policy in earnest for the transition to open economy system. Since 1990, the Uruguay Round Agreement and Korea's OECD entry have accelerated market liberalization.
Korea maintained protective measures such as import quotas due to an adverse balance of international payments. However, since the IMF entry of 1998, Korea has tried to change a preliminary import management system to an advanced model post-import management system.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section II outlines the definition, history and structure of safeguard system. Section III discusses the problem of law interpretation and application, examining the gray zone measures and recent status of Uruguay Round safeguard agreement. Section IV looks into safeguard system and measures of selected countries. Section V discusses the problem and ways for improvement of Korea's safeguard system, suggesting associated organizations, foreign trade law and flexible tariff system. Finally, several desirable strategies and policy implications or Korea's safeguard system are proposed in Section VI.

I. 서론

II. 세이프가드의 개요
1. 세이프가드의 정의 및 의의
2. 세이프가드 논의의 약사
3. 세이프가드의 발동구조

III. 세이프가다논의의 주요문제점
1. 법해석상의 문제점
2. 운용상의 문제점
3. 회색지대조치
4. UR 세이프가드 협상의 최근 진전상황

IV. 주요국의 세이프가드제도 및 사례
1. 주요국의 세이프가드 발동현황
2. 주요국의 세이프가드제도
3. 주요국의 대한 세이프가드 조치내역

V. 우리나라 세이프가드제도의 문제점과 개선방안
1. 세이프가드 관련기관
2. 대외무역법
3. 탄력관세제도

VI. 세이프가드의 활용방안
1. 우리나라의 세이프가드관련 조치현황
2. 산업피해 판정기준에 대한 경제학적 분석

VII. 요약 및 결론