Safeguard duty imposed on Soda Ash imports from China to address market disruption and protect domestic industry. Imposition of a safeguard duty on imports of Soda Ash from the People's Republic of China pursuant to section 8C(1) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 read with the Customs Tariff (Transitional Product Specific Safeguard Duty) Rules, 2002, based on DG(Safeguards) findings that increased imports had caused and threatened market disruption to the domestic industry, with the Central Government specifying an ad valorem duty on the product classified under tariff item 2836 20 and fixing the measure's one-year temporal scope.