米産牛セーフガード見直し　改正議定書を決定―政府

　政府は１４日の閣議で、日米貿易協定に基づく米国産牛肉のセーフガード（緊急輸入制限）発動基準を見直すための協定改正議定書を決定した。米産牛の日本への急激な流入を抑えるセーフガードを発動しづらくするのが柱。今国会で承認を目指し、今年度中にも適用したい考えだ。
　改正議定書では、米国からの輸入量が発動基準（今年度は２５．２万トン）を超えても、環太平洋連携協定（ＴＰＰ）参加国からの輸入量と合算した総量がＴＰＰ向けの枠（同６３．７万トン）内に収まれば、米産牛にセーフガードを適用しない仕組みを導入する。（2022/10/14-11:13）

The Japanese government Friday adopted a protocol to amend its criteria for invoking a safeguard measure to curb U.S. beef imports under its trade pact with the United States.
   The revision will make it more difficult to carry out an emergency tariff hike to curb U.S. beef imports.
   The government hopes to gain parliamentary approval of the revision during the current extraordinary session running until December and start applying the new criteria within fiscal 2022 ending next March.
   Following the revision, an emergency tariff hike will not be introduced even if U.S. beef imports exceed a trigger level, as long as the combined import volume of beef from the United States and Japan's peers in the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact is below Tokyo's low-tariff import quota for beef from TPP members.
   For fiscal 2022, the trigger level is set at 252,000 tons, and the import quota at 637,000 tons.