Prohibited Items (Exports)

• All forms of wild life including their parts and products except Peacock Tail Feathers, including handicrafts made thereof and manufactured articles, and shavings of Shed Antlers of Chital and Sambhar subject to conditions.
• Exotic birds
• All items of plant included in Appendix 1 of the CITES, wild orchids, as well as plants as specified
• Beef
• Human skeletons
• Tallow, fat and/or oils of any animal origin excluding fish oil
• Wood and wood products in the form of logs, timber, stumps, roots, barks, chips, powder, flakes, dust, pulp and charcoal except sawn timber made exclusively out of imported teak logs/timber subject to conditons.
• Chemicals included in Schedule 1 of the Chemicals Weapons Convention of the United Nations
• Sandalwood in any form, but excluding fully finished handicrafts made out of sandalwood and machine finished sandalwood products
• Red Sanders wood in any form, whether raw, processed or unprocessed as well as any product made thereof

Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy, Bombay
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Last updated: May 1995.