Rule 7 - Determination of serious injury or threat of serious injury - India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (Bilateral Safeguard Measures) Rules, 2017

7. Determination of serious injury or threat of serious injury. - The Director General shall determine serious injury or threat of serious injury to the domestic industry taking into account, inter alia, the following principles, namely:- (a) the Director General shall evaluate all relevant factors of an objective and quantifiable nature having a bearing on the situation of the domestic industry, in particular, the rate and amount of the increase in imports of the originating good in absolute and relative terms, the share of the domestic market taken by increased imports of the originating good, changes in the level of sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and losses and employment; and (b) the determination referred under this rule, shall not be made unless the investigation demonstrates, on the basis of objective evidence, the existence of the causal link between increased imports of the originating good and serious injury or threat thereof and when factors other than increased imports of the originating good are causing injury to the domestic industry at the same time, such injury shall not be attributed to the increased imports of the originating good.