Country Guide - India

India Import Prohibitions & Shipping Guidelines

All shipments do not have a High Value preferred amount and may be subject by customs official random inspection , furthermore requiring a Formal Clearance Process, hence, Indian Customs may require additional documentation from consignee.

Additional clearance charges, approvals and processing time maybe applicable. Additional information can be found at the Indian Customs Website

These are some of the items the Indian government prohibits:

• Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen Of wild animals.
• Pig fat, free of lean meat and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.
• Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included of Wild animals.
• Guts of other animals for natural food casings of wild animals.
• Guts other than for natural food castings of wild animals.
• Bladders & stomachs of Wild animals.
• Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; down of wild birds.
• Other feather (excluding for stuffing purpose): of wild birds.
• Powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers: of wild birds.
• Skins and other parts : Of wild birds.
• Bones, horn cones & parts thereof, not crushed: Of wild animals.
• Bone meal Of wild animals.
• Other: Of wild animals Not permitted to be imported.
• Ivory.
• Ivory powder and waste.
• Fish nails.
• Other fish waste.
• Sinews and tendons Of wild life.
• Frozen semen other than bovine embryo Of wild life.
• Pig Fats (including Lard) and Poultry fat, other than that of Heading 0209 or 1503.
• Mutton Tallow.
• Other fats and oils and their fractions of fish, other than liver oils.
• Fats and Oils and their fractions of marine mammals.
• Neat’s Foot Oil and fats from bone or waste.
• Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.
• Animal fats and oils and their fractions.
• Margarine Of Animal Origin.
• Imitation lard of animal origin.
• Animal or Vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidized, dehydrated, sulphurated, blown, polymerized by heat in Vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516.
• Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils.
• Degras.
• Soap Stocks.
• Microbial rennet: Animal rennet.
• Other enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included.
• Animal rennet.
• Other animal rennet.
• Tiger-Cat skins.
• Articles of apparel and clothing accessories Of wild animals covered under Wild Life Protection Act,1972.
• Other articles of fur skin Of wild animals covered under Wild Life Protection Act,1972.
• Telephone sets, including telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528. (i) Import of ‘Mobile Handsets’ (classified under ITC (HS) Code ‘8517’ ) without International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) No. or with all Zeroes IMEI is prohibited.

-Import of ‘CDMA mobile phones’ (classified under ITC (HS) Code ‘8517’ ) without Electronic Serial Number (ESN) / Mobile Equipment Identifier (MEID) or with all Zeroes as ESN / MEID is prohibited.

• Worked ivory and articles of ivory Not permitted to be imported.

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