Restricted Items (Exports)

Following the amendments to the EXIM policy on 31st March'95, this category now consists of 32 enteries with 26 sub-enteries. The items deleted from the list after the amendment, are marked below with " ** " and additions with " ## " .

• Bache-de-mer of sizes below 3 inches
• Cattle
• Camel
• Chemical fertilizers, all types, including super-phosphate Micronutrient fertilizers and mixtures thereof containing NPK, excluding those specified
• Dress materials/readymade garments fabrics/textile items with imprints of excerpts or verses of the Holy Quran
• Deoiled groundnut cakes containing more than 1% oil (and groundnut expeller cakes)
• Fresh and frozen silver pomfrets of weight less than 300 gms.
• Fur of domestic animals, excluding lamb fur skin
• Fodder, including wheat and rice straw
• Hides and skins, namely :-
  • Cuttings and fleshing of hides and skins used as raw materials for manufacture of animal glue gelatine
  • Raw hides and skins, all types excluding lamb fur skin
  • All categories of semi-processed hides and skins including E.I. tanned and wet blue hides and skins and crust leather
  • Clothing leather fur suede/hair, hair-on suede/shearing suede leathers
  • Furleathers
  • Industrial leathers, namely :-
    • Cycle saddle leathers
    • Hydraulic/packing/belting/harness/washer leathers
    • Pickling band leathers
    • Strap/combing leathers ##
  • Lining leathers, namely:-
    • Lining suede from cow and buffalo hides and calf skins
    • Lining suede from goat, kid, lamb and sheep skins
  • Luggage leathers - case hide or side/suit case/hand bag/luggage/ cash bag leather
  • Miscellaneous leather, namely :-
    • Book binding leathers
    • Skiver leathers
    • Transistor case/camera case leather
  • Shoe upper leathers, namely :-
    • Bunwar leather
    • Kattai slipper/sandal leather
  • Sole leather chrome tanned sole leather
• Horse - Kathiawari, Marwari and Manipuri breeds; [Mules]
• Metals and their compounds, namely :-
  • Beryllium and its compounds **
  • Lithium and its compounds **
  • Neptunium and its compounds **
  • Plutonium and its compunds **
  • Thorium and its compounds **
  • Uranium and its compounds **
  • Zirconium and its compounds **
  • Deuterium compounds **
  • Hafnium **
  • Niobium **
  • Articles made of metals, including waste and scrap , mentioned above **
  • Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations with nickel or nickel compounds as active substance
  • Reaction initiators, reaction accelerators and catalytic preparations, not elsewhere specified or included, with precious metal compounds as active substance
• Minerals, ores and concentrates, namely :-
  • Chrome ores, other than (a) beneficiated chrome ore fines/concentrated and (b) those mentioned in Part III
  • Uranium ores and concentrates **
  • Lumpy/blended manganese ore with more than 46% manganese
  • Beryl **
• Milk, baby milk and sterlised liquid milk
• Pasewa and any lac containing living insects; Sticklac; Broodiac
• Pulses, all types, including lentils, grams, beans and flour made therefrom
• Processed pulses other than those made out of the pulses imported under the Duty Exemption Scheme or by an EOU/Unit in the EPZ
• Paddy (Rice in husk)
• Rice bran, raw and boiled
• Seeds and planting materials namely :-
  • Castor seeds, cotton seeds, [except such cotton seeds as are of varieties/hybrids of other countries grown under customs production], cashew seeds and plants, Egyptian clover (Barseem)-Trifolium alaxtum seeds, Fodder crop seeds, Green manure seeds other than Dhaincha, guar seeds (whole), jute seeds, linseeds, lucerne (alfalfa) medicago sativa, mesta seeds, Nux vomica seeds/bark/leaves/roots and powder thereof, onion seeds, seeds of ornamental plants (wild variety), paddy seeds (wild variety), pepper cuttings or rooted cuttings of pepper, Persian clover (Snaftel trifolium-resupinatum) seeds, red sanders seeds, (Pterocarpus santalinus), rubber seeds, russa grass seeds and tufts, seeds of all forestry species, seeds of all oilseeds and pulses, soyabean seeds, sandalwood seeds (Santalum album), saffron seeds or corms (planting material for saffron), wheat seeds (wild variety)
• Sea shells, excluding polished sea shells and handicrafts made out of sea shells, of all species, except those of the undermentioned species the export of which shall not be allowed in any form.
  • Trochus Niloticus
  • Turbo species
  • Lambis species
  • Tridacna species
  • Xancus pyrus
• Sea weeds of all types, including G.edulis but excluding brown sea weeds and agarophytes of Tamil Nadu coast origin in processed form.
• Silk worms, silkworm seeds and silk worm cocoons
• Vegetable oils in consumer packs above 5 kgs. namely
  • Coconut oil, cotton seed oil, corn oil, kardi oil, linseed oil, mustard oil, niger seed oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, rapeseed oil, rice bran oil, salad oil, sunflower oil, sesame seed oil, soyabean oil.
  • Groundnut oil
• Vintage motor cars, parts and components thereof manufactured prior to 1-1-1950 Vintage motor cycles, parts and components thereof manufactured prior to 1-1-1940
• Viscose staple fibre (Regular), excluding high performance viscose staple fibre
• Whole Human blood plasma and all products derived from human blood except Gamma globulin and human serum albumin manufactured from human placenta and human placental blood, raw placenta, placental blood plasma
• Waste paper
• Chemicals, included in Schedules 2 & 3 to the Chemical Weapons Convention of the United Nations
• Imported sugar including sugar which has already landed and is pending clearence at the customs. ##
• Special materials, Equipments and Technologies as specified. ##
• Any other item whose exports are regulated by a public notice issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade in this behalf. ##

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Last updated: May 1995.