Rule 10 - Final findings

Safeguard determinations require finding serious injury and causal link, recommending measures and issuing public notice to governments.

The Director General must determine within the investigation period whether increased imports caused or threaten to cause serious injury and whether a causal link exists to tariff concessions under the Trade Agreement, recommend safeguard measures and their duration (with progressive liberalisation if exceeding one year), and, if findings are affirmative, issue a public notice setting out facts and reasons and send it to the Central Government and the exporting State and other ASEAN member States.