(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, --
(a) "Act" means the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992);
(b)"Authorised Officer" means the Authorised Officer designated as such under sub-rule(1) of rule 3;
(c) "increased quantity" includes increase in import whether in absolute terms or relative to domestic production;
(d) "interested party" includes -
(i) an exporter or foreign producer or the importer of goods (which is subject to investigation for purposes of imposition of safeguard quantitative restrictions) or a trade or business association, majority of the members of which are producers, exporters or importers of such goods;
(ii) the Government of the exporting country; and
(iii)a producer of the like goods or directly competitive goods in India or a trade or business association, a majority of members of which produce or trade the like goods or directly competitive goods in India;
(e) "like goods" means goods which is identical or alike in all respects to the goods under investigation, or in the absence of such goods, othf r goods which has characteristics closely resembling those of the goods under investigation;
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(f) "quantitative restrictions" means any specific limit on quantity of goods imposed as a safeguard measure under the Act;
(g) "specified country" means a country or territory which is a member of the World Trade Organization and includes the country or territory wr.h which the Government of India has an agreement for giving it the most favoured nation treatment;
(2) The words and expressions used herein and not defined, but defined in the Act shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Act.