Rule 3 - Duties of Director General. - India-ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (Safeguard Measures) Rules, 2016

3. Duties of Director General. Subject to the provisions of these rules, it shall be the duty of the Director General, - (a) to investigate the existence of serious injury or threat of serious injury to the domestic industry as a consequence of increased imports of a good into India in terms of the Trade Agreement; (b) to identify the good liable for safeguard measure; (c) 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 imports of a good from one or more member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations due to tariff concession under the Trade Agreement; (d) to recommend safeguard measure which if adopted would be adequate to prevent or remedy serious injury and to facilitate adjustment; (e) to recommend the duration of the safeguard measure and where the period so recommended is more than a year, to recommend progressive liberalisation adequate to facilitate adjustment; (f) to review the need for continuation of a safeguard measure.