2.07 — Principles of Restrictions

DGFT may, through a Notification, impose ‘Prohibition’ or ‘Restriction’:

• (a) on export of foodstuffs or other essential products

for preventing or relieving critical shortages;

• (b)on imports and exports necessary for the application of standards or regulations for the classification, grading or marketing of commodities in international trade;

• (c) on imports of fisheries product, imported in any form, for enforcement of governmental measures to restrict production of the domestic product or for certain other purposes;

• (d)on import to safeguard country’s external financial

  • position and to ensure a level of reserves;

• (e) on imports to promote establishment of a particular industry;

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General Provisions Regarding Imports and Exports

• (f) for preventing sudden increases in imports from causing serious injury to domestic producers or to relieve producers who have suffered such injury;

• (g) for protection of public morals or to maintain public order;

• (h) for protection of human, animal or plant life or health;

• (i) relating to the importations or exportations of gold or silver;

• (j) necessary to secure compliance with laws and regulations including those relating to the protection of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and the prevention of deceptive practices;

• (k) relating to the products of prison labour;

laws and regulations including those relating to the protection of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and the prevention of deceptive practices;

• (k) relating to the products of prison labour;

• (l) for the protection of national treasures of artistic, historic or archaeological value;

• (m) for the conservation of exhaustible natural resources;

• (n) for ensuring essential quantities for the domestic processing industry;

• (o) essential to the acquisition or distribution of products in general or local short supply;

• (p) for the protection of country’s essential security interests

  • i. relating to fissionable materials or the materials from which they are derived;

  • ii. relating to the traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war;

  • iii. taken in time of war or other emergency in international relations; or

• (q) in pursuance of country’s obligations under the United Nations Charter for the maintenance of international peace and security