If the import increase in a particular good has reached such a level that it poses a serious threat to the domestic industry producing similar or identical goods, safeguard measures can be applied to prevent the import of the goods in question in order to eliminate such threat. However, measures taken must be limited and temporary and must be based on the existence of a threat of damage.
Safeguard measures can be form of increased customs duty or quantitative restriction to the imports of the product in question, or in the form of a combination of the two.