Bilateral safeguard measures where increased imports from tariff elimination cause or threaten serious domestic industry injury. The Director General must determine within prescribed time limits whether increased imports caused or threaten serious injury to domestic industry and whether a causal link exists with tariff elimination under the Trade Agreement, recommend appropriate bilateral safeguard measures and their duration, include progressive liberalisation if duration exceeds one year, state factual and legal reasons in affirmative findings, publish a public notice of final findings, and send copies to the Central Government and the Government of Japan.