(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Director-General" means the Director-General Safeguard appointed by the Central Government under sub-rule (1) of rule 3 of the Customs Tariff Identification and Assessment of Safeguard Duty Rules, 1997;

(b) "Domestic industry" means the producers­-

(i) as a whole of the like article or a directly competitive article in India; or

(ii) whose collective output of the like article or a directly competitive article in India constitutes a major share of the total production of the said article in India;

(c) "Increased quantity" means absolute increase in imports from the Republic of Singapore;

(d) "Interested party" includes­

(i) any exporter or producer from the Republic of Singapore or importer of the article subjected to investigation for purposes of taking safeguard measure or a trade or business association, majority of the members of which are producers, exporters or importers of such an article, or,

(ii) the Government of the Republic of Singapore, or,

(iii) a producer of the like article or directly competitive article in India or a trade or business association, a majority of members of which produce or trade the like article or directly competitive article in India;

(e) "Serious injury" means a significant overall impairment in the position of the domestic industry;

(f) "threat of serious injury" means a clear and imminent danger of serious injury on the basis of facts and not merely on allegation conjecture or remote possibility;

(g) "Like article" means an article which is identical or alike in all respects to the goods under investigation;

(h) "Trade Agreement" means the "Comprehensive Economic Co-operation Agreement between the Republic of India and the Republic of Singapore".

(2) All words and expressions used and not defined in these rules shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) and the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962).