Rule 13 - Date of commencement of safeguard measure - India-ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (Safeguard Measures) Rules, 2016

13. Date of commencement of safeguard measure. (1) The safeguard measure applied under rule 11 shall take effect from the date of publication of the notification, in the Official Gazette, imposing such safeguard measure. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), where a provisional safeguard measure has been imposed and where the Director General has recorded a finding that increased imports have caused or threaten to cause serious injury to domestic industry, it shall be specified in the notification issued under rule 11 that such safeguard measure shall take effect from the date of imposition of the provisional safeguard measure.