The potentially adverse effects of import surges on domestic markets and the agricultural sector, particularly in developing countries, have received enough attention to prompt the concepts of safeguards to protect against any ""injurious"" import surge. This book has two objectives. The first is to examine the theoretical and legal frameworks of an import surge, based on reviews of the definition and identification of an import surge, and its potential and likely effects. The second is to synthesise the findings of FAO country case studies, including implications for ways to deal with import surges and especially to provide informed guidance to policy-makers to respond to the surge's consequences.