Bilateral safeguard measures protect domestic industry when increased imports from Japan cause or threaten serious injury. Definitions for India-Japan CEPA bilateral safeguard measures specify that critical circumstances permit provisional measures where increased imports of an originating good have caused or threaten to cause serious injury to the domestic industry. The Director General (Safeguard) is the investigating authority; 'increased imports' covers absolute or relative rises from Japan; 'interested party' includes exporters, importers, trade associations, the Government of Japan and domestic producers; and terms not defined here have meanings in the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and the Customs Act, 1962.