Rule 4 - Duties of the Director General - Customs Tariff (Identification and Assessment of Safeguard Measures) Rules, 1997

4. Duties of the Director General. - Subject to the provisions of these rules, it shall be the duty of the Director General - (1) to investigate the existence of serious injury or threat of serious injury to domestic industry as a consequence of increased import of an article into India; (2) to identify the article liable for safeguard 1 [ measure ] ; (3) to submit his findings, provisional or otherwise to the Central Government as to the serious injury or threat of serious injury to domestic industry consequent upon increased import of an article from the specified country; (4) to recommend, - (i) the amount of 2 [ measure ] which if levied would be adequate to remove the injury or threat of injury to the domestic industry; (ii) the duration of levy of safeguard 2 [ measure ] and where the period so recommended is more than a year, to recommend progressive liberalisation adequate to facilitate 3 [ **** ] adjustment. (5) to review the need for continuance of safeguard 4 [ measure ] . ************ NOTES:- 1. Substituted vide Notification No. 12/2021-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-02-2021 w.e.f. 02-02-2021 before it was read as duty 2. Substituted vide Notification No. 12/2021-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-02-2021 w.e.f. 02-02-2021 before it was read as duty 3. Omitted vide Notification No. 12/2021-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-02-2021 w.e.f. 02-02-2021 before it was read as positive 4. Substituted vide Notification No. 12/2021-Customs (N.T.) dated 01-02-2021 w.e.f. 02-02-2021 before it was read as duty