Digitalization considerably complicates the application of previous trade remedy norms to the new and expanding digital services trade, and there is a need to reprioritize and restructure the existing framework to reflect this difference. Emergency safeguard is an essential element in the trade regime, but the classic concept of GATT-type safeguard measures that is based on a dichotomy of tariff and nontariff barriers and clear-cut rules between goods and services are not suitable for regulating the expanding digital services transactions where barriers tend to be much more diverse and less obvious. Hence, a new trade remedy framework must incorporate the elements of convergence, interconnectedness and externality, while taking a sectoral approach, as generic rules on trade remedies that cater to all possible scenarios and sectors are no longer suitable in these realms. It must prioritize rules-making on subsidies and domestic tax schemes, while also considering for issues specific to the digital features such as data flow restrictions and their implications.