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Table 3.5 Prohibited imports, 2014
HS Code: 95.07.10.00; 96.01.10.00; 96.01.90.00
Product description: Ivory and articles of ivory
Reasons for prohibition: Preserve the natural environment
Responsible ministry: Ministry of Industry and Commerce

Table 2.1 Major trade-related laws and regulations, 2013
Description: Foreign trade
Legislation: (…) Customs Environmental Charge Imposition Order , 1995 (…)

Table 3.7 Products subject to import licensing
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Category: Nuclear facilities and materials
Products: Production and utilization facilities, special nuclear materials, source materials, and by-product materials, including when such materials are contained in radioactive waste.
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Purpose: To protect public health and safety and the environment, and maintain the common defence and security of the United States, by exercising prudent controls over the possession, use, distribution, and transport of such items
Legal reference: Atomic Energy Act, 10 CFR Part 110
Other info: All persons, firms and institutions must have a permanent (physical) address within the United States

Adjustment assistance has only been used in special circumstances to facilitate the introduction of new fisheries-management arrangements. Where marine reserves create additional requirements for fishing-reduction efforts beyond that required for achieving fisheries management objectives, Government-funded adjustment assistance/compensation may be considered on a case-by-case basis. Under the Caring for our Country programme (section 4.2.2.2), a programme of the previous Government, support has been available to improve management practices in aquaculture. A decline in annual expenditure under the Fisheries Structural Adjustment Program (terminated in June 2010) has seen the estimated effective rates of combined assistance for fisheries decrease from a high of 12% (2006/07) to 3.3% (2011/12). While budgetary assistance under the industry specific Fisheries Structural Adjustment Program has dropped progressively by 89.2% since 2008/09 to $A 1.8 million (2010/11), fishing industry R&D funding remained stable. Following the announcement of the final network of new marine reserves in June 2012, around $A 100 million of fisheries adjustment assistance funding was to assist the commercial fishing industry adjust to the introduction of the new marine reserves. The package was to include: transitional business assistance in the form of payments to fishing businesses; competitive grants to improve the long-term sustainability of fisheries displaced by the marine reserves; and reduction of commercial fishing through the purchase of individual fisher's entitlements or quota units in fisheries, where appropriate, up to the level of production displaced by the new marine reserves. However, consistent with its commitment for a more competitive and sustainable fisheries sector, the current Government will review the management plans for the Commonwealth marine reserves announced in November 2012. It intends to appoint a scientific review panel and bioregional advisory panels to provide advice on future marine reserve-management arrangements. Until the results of the review are finalised, any fisheries' compensation has been placed on hold

On the issue of compliance with instruments of the International Maritime Organization such as its Conventions/Protocols/Agreements, India has ratified 32 such IMO instruments (out of 55) (Table A4.4). Currently, six others are being considered. [104]

[104] They are: AFS Convention (International Convention on the Control of Harmful Anti-Fouling Substances on Ships) 2001; Bunker Convention (International Convention on Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage) 2001; Protocol of 1996 Convention on Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping Waste and Other Matter (London Convention); OPRC/HNS (Protocol on Preparedness, Response and Cooperation to Pollution incidents by Hazardous and Noxious Substances) 2000; BWM Convention (International Convention for Control and Management of Ship's Ballast Water and Sediments) 2004; and Maritime Labour Convention 2006. The authorities consider that, as for the remaining 17 conventions/protocols/agreements, not all of them are relevant in the Indian context and may not require immediate action domestically.

Table 3.5 Imports subject to import licences or approval by the competent bodies
Competent Body: Waste Department
Products: Precursors and essential chemical substances subject to international control.
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Air-conditioning equipment in motor vehicles and trucks (whether or not incorporated into the vehicle).
Refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment/domestic and commercial heat pumps.

(...) Imports of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) require an import permit issued by the Swaziland Environmental Authority.

To help developing country partners access the economic benefits that contribute to growth, sustainable development and employment generation, Canada has focused its existing multilateral and bilateral development programme to address these challenges. (...)

Barbados applies restrictions on the exportation of certain products, which are included in the List of Prohibited and Restricted Exports, of the Customs Act, as amended by the Customs (List of Prohibited and Restricted Imports and Exports) Order, 2009 (S.I. 2009 No. 127) and the Customs (List of Prohibited and Restricted Imports and Exports) (Amendment) Order, 2010, (S.I. 2010 No. 114). Goods listed in part I of the Second Schedule of the Act are prohibited exports. They include substances or chemicals listed under HS heading Ex 29.03, namely halons, and other ozone-depleting substances. Goods listed in part II of the Second Schedule are restricted exports, they included other ozone-depleting substances under HS heading Ex 29.03, as well as substances or chemicals under tariff heading Ex 38.24, mainly refrigerant blends capable of depleting the ozone layer.

(…) Yet, the country is a net food importer by a wide margin, being vulnerable to drought and other natural disasters. (…)