Provisional safeguard duty on hot-rolled steel imports to protect domestic industry during an interim protective period. A provisional ad valorem safeguard duty is imposed on imports of hot-rolled flat products of non-alloy and other alloy steel in coils of width 600 mm or more, based on preliminary findings that increased imports have caused and threaten to cause serious injury to domestic industry; the duty applies to specified tariff items for a limited provisional period from Gazette publication, and specific product categories are expressly excluded from the scope.