Preliminary findings: expedited bilateral safeguard investigations can justify provisional measures when increased imports threaten serious injury. Rule 8 allows the Director General, on clear evidence that increased imports have caused or threaten to cause serious injury and where delay would cause difficult-to-repair damage, to record a preliminary finding and to issue a public notice of that finding, transmitting copies to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the Ministry of Finance, and the Government of the Republic of Korea.