Temporary measures to protect an industry when it experiences increased competition by foreign suppliers.
Safeguards can take the form of tariffs or quantitative restrictions.
An arrangement whereby equipment is purchased by a lessor from the company owning and using it. The lessor then becomes the owner and leases it back to the original owner, who continues to use the equipment. A lease by a lessor who is the manufacturer or dealer, in which the lease meets the definitional criteria of a capital lease or direct financing lease. All commodities exported from the US must be assigned a seven-digit Schedule B number. Usually the Advising bank to the prime letter of credit.