India with fast-growing consumers is attracting huge imports into the country, which in some cases affects the interests of the domestic industry, so India had to resort to use safeguard measures. During the period 1995-2021, India initiated a total of 46 safeguard investigations and imposed SG measures on 22 cases. Unlike anti-dumping and anti-dumping measures, India's trend of using safeguard measures has been on a downward trend in recent times.

 

Figure 1: Safeguard Investigations Initiated and Measures Imposed by India

Source: WTO data

 

Product groups subject to the most safeguard measures by India

 

Products of the chemical industry are subject to the most safeguard measures by India with 16 cases (accounting for 73%), followed by base metals (accounting for 14%).

 

 Table 1: Commodities subject to the most safeguard measures by India (1995-2021) 

Items/Commodities	Number of cases subject to safeguard measures	Percentage (%)
Products of the chemical and allied industries	16	73%
Base metals and articles	3	14%
Vegetable products	1	5%
Resins, plastics and articles; rubber and articles	1	5%
Machinery and electrical equipment	1	5%
Total	22	100%

Source: WTO data

 

Source: Center for WTO and International Trade