Bilateral safeguard measures: Director General must investigate import-caused injury and recommend appropriate remedies and duration. Director General must investigate whether increased imports originating from Malaysia due to tariff reduction or elimination have caused or threaten to cause serious injury to domestic industry, evaluate objective and quantifiable factors such as import increases, market share, sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and employment, submit findings to the Central Government, recommend adequate bilateral safeguard measures and their duration, propose progressive liberalisation where measures exceed one year, and review the need for continuation of measures.