@article{2016,title={RECENT PROTECTIONISM POLICIES IN G-8 COUNTRIES},abstractNode={Following the global crisis started towards the end of 2008 and affected the whole world, the countries put various policies into action in order to protect themselves as in 1929. After GATT, the countries couldn’t implement trade restricting, protectionist actions whenever they wanted. The agreement provided countries the opportunity of using protectionist policies under certain circumstances. Taking those situations into consideration, the countries took measures which were commonly described as invisible handicaps, and in terms of trade, not directly affecting measures but hard to identify and effective in protecting. The number of protectionist measures that were nearly 200 in 2008 increased to 1000 in 2010, to 2200 at the end of 2012, and to 4800 at the end of 2015. When it comes to 2016, it has been assessed that the measures taken have already been over 5100 when compared to the last 8 years. Among the countries that have taken over 5100 measures from 2008 till now, the first five countries (India 510, Russia 490, USA 390, Argentina 350, Brazil 290) have taken 2030 measures in total themselves. When looked at the countries that are affected from over 200 protectionist policies implemented by G-8 countries, Canada has been affected from 228, China from 544, France from 279, Germany from 301, India from 211, Poland from 208, Korea from 266, Spain from 212, Turkey from 208, Ukraine from 207, England from 251 and USA from 278.},author={Murat TEKBAŞ-- Metin YILDIRIM},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Social Sciences}}