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Export prohibitions apply mainly for environmental, food-security, marketing, pricing, and domestic supply reasons, and to comply with international treaties. Since its previous Review, the list of products subject to export prohibitions in India has remained largely unchanged; on 9 September 2011, export prohibition on non-basmati rice and wheat was removed (Table A3.4).

India imposes export restrictions and prohibitions mainly for environmental, food security, marketing, pricing, and domestic supply reasons, and to comply with international treaties. Some agricultural products are subject to export prohibitions, including certain pulses, and edible oils.

Table A3. 4 Export prohibitions, 2014
- Reason for prohibition: Protection of wildlife under the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972
- Description: All wild animals, animal articles (including their products and derivatives), excluding those for which ownership certificates have been granted and those required for transactions for education, scientific research, and management under the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972, including their parts and products
Live exotic birds, excluding albino budgerigars, budgerigars, Bengali finches, white finches, and zebra finches, which may be exported subject to preshipment inspection; and java sparrows, which are subject to export licensing
Marine species and their parts, products, and derivatives under the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972
Bêche-de-mer (sea cucumber)

Table A3. 4 Export prohibitions, 2014
- Reason for prohibition: Control of poaching and illegal trade in wildlife and its products
- Description: Peacock tail feathers, including handicrafts and articles of peacock tail feathers
Shavings of shed antlers of Chital and Sambhar, including manufactured articles
Sea shells, including polished sea shells and handicrafts made out of those species mentioned in the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972

Table A3. 4 Export prohibitions, 2014
- Reason for prohibition: Ecological and environmental reasons
- Description: Undersized rock lobsters and sand lobsters
Chemicals under the Montreal Protocol when exported to a country that is not party to the Protocol
Plants and plant portions of wild species specified in the Wild Life (Protection) Act 1972 or the CITES Appendix I or in the Export Licensing Note 1a
Wood and wood products in forms of logs, timber, stumps, roots, barks, chips, powder, flakes, dust, pulp, and charcoalb, other than sawn timber made exclusively out of imported logs/timber
Fuel wood in logs, billets, twigs, faggots or similar forms; wood in chips or particles; and sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms
Wood charcoal whether or not agglomeratedb
Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm, other than sawn timber made exclusively out of imported logs/timber
Sandalwood in any form, excluding finished handicraft products of sandalwood, machine finished sandalwood products, and sandalwood oil
Red sanders wood in any form, whether raw, processed or unprocessed, excluding value added products of red sanders wood (e.g. extracts, dyes, musical instruments, and parts of musical instruments, furniture, parts of various sizes of furniture (subject to DGFT notification No.54 of 3 December 2013), toys, dolls and other handicrafts made from red sanders wood procured from legal sources

Table A3. 4 Export prohibitions, 2014
- Reason for prohibition: Natural resources conservation
- Description: Mechanical wood pulp
Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades
Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades
Chemical wood pulp, sulphite, other than dissolving grade
Semi chemical wood pulp

Table A3. 4 Export prohibitions, 2014
- Reason for prohibition: Ensuring domestic availability/food security
- Description: Dried leguminous vegetables, shelled, whether or not skinned or split, excluding kabuli chana (chickpea), and 10,000 tonnes of organic pulses during 2011-12[d]
All edible oil [e]

[e] Exemptions apply to: (...) exports of edible oil from DTA to special economic zones (SEZs) for consumption by SEZ units in manufacture of processed food products subject to applicable value addition norms and 10,000 tonnes of organic edible oils per year subject to the conditions notified in Notification No.50 of 3 June 2011 (...)

Table A3. 7 Selected incentive schemes/programmes for MSMEs, 2014
Implemented by the Development Commissioner
- Scheme/programme: ISO 9001/14001 and HACCP Certification Reimbursement Scheme
- Eligibility: All MSEs
- Description: Reimbursement of 75% of the certification expenses up to a maximum of Rs 75,000 to each unit as one-time reimbursement only to those MSEs which have acquired Quality Management Systems (QMS)/ISO 9001 and/or Environment Management Systems (EMS)/ISO 14001 and/or Food Safety Systems (HACCP) Certification.
- Introduction/ validity: 1994/ongoing

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