Safeguard duty designation: notification identifies developing countries whose imports may attract safeguard measures. Notification No. 103/98-Customs dated 14 December 1998 designates an enumerated list of countries as developing countries for the purposes of applying safeguard duty under section 8B of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975, thereby identifying which foreign suppliers fall within the scope of the statutory safeguard regime and subject to its procedural and tariff consequences.