Provisional bilateral safeguard measure may suspend tariff reductions or raise customs duty under the trade agreement for a limited period. The Central Government may, on the Director General's preliminary findings, apply a provisional bilateral safeguard measure by either suspending further reduction of a customs duty rate for an originating good under the Trade Agreement or increasing that duty up to the lesser of two specified Most Favoured Nation applied rates; such a provisional measure is limited to a period not exceeding two hundred days from its imposition.