Section 15Sec./Art. 15

Limitations on Actions. - The duration of the period of an action taken under the General Safeguard Provisions of this Act shall not exceed four (4) years. Such period shall include the period, if any, in which provisional safeguard relief under Section 8 was in effects.

The effective period of any safeguard measure, including any extensions thereof under Section 19 may not, in the aggregate, exceed ten (10) years.

1. Any additional duty, or any duty imposed under this Section may be specific and/or ad valorem. It shall be in the amount necessary to prevent or redress or remedy the injury to the domestic industry;

2. If the quantitative restriction is used, such measure shall not reduce the quantity of imports below the level of a recent period which shall be the average of imports in the last three (3) representative years of which the statistics are available, unless clear justification is given that a different levels is necessary to prevent or remedy serious injury;

3. An action described in Section 13 (a), (b), or (c) that has an effective period of more than one (1) year shall be phased down at regular intervals within the period in which the action is in effect;

4. Within two (2) years after the expiration of the action, the Secretary shall not accept any further petition for the same article: Provided, however, That a safeguard measure with a duration of one hundred eighty (180) days or less may be applied again to the same product if:

(i) At least one (1) year has elapsed since the date of introduction of the safeguard measure; and

(ii) Such measure has not been applied on the same product more than twice in the five (5) year period immediately preceding the date of introduction of the measure.