The GTA report tells us how many measures have been imposed since November 2008, but says nothing about the analogous numbers prior to that date. In the absence of a benchmark for comparative assessment, we do not really know whether 192 “protectionist” measures is a big or small number.
进一步来说，对比于经济危机爆发之前，我们甚至觉得这些数字其实并不是特别的高。GTA的报告指出的是2008年12月份之后的数字，并没有给出之前的数字。在没有对比坐标的情况下，我们真的无法知道这192个保护主义措施到底是多还是少。