Bilateral safeguard measures: Director General must investigate import increases and recommend measures to prevent serious injury. The Director General must investigate whether increased imports due to customs duty reduction under the Trade Agreement have caused or threaten to cause serious injury, evaluate objective factors including import increases, market share, sales, production, productivity, capacity utilisation, profits and employment, submit findings to the Central Government, recommend an adequate bilateral safeguard measure and its duration, and review the need for continuation of the measure.