Safeguard investigations: applications must prove increased imports caused injury to justify quantitative restrictions and adjustment plans.

Applications for a safeguard investigation must supply detailed evidence of increased imports and a nexus to injury to the domestic industry, including applicant and producer identification, precise product description and tariff classification, country(ies) of origin, export price and import duty history, year wise import quantities and values, domestic production, capacity and utilization data, and operational and financial indicators of injury. The application must explain other causal factors and request specific quantitative restriction measures with proposed duration and adjustment plans where measures exceed one year.

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