This document lists prohibited, canalised, and restricted items that cannot be imported into or exported from India without permission or under certain conditions. Prohibited items include wildlife products, exotic birds, wild orchids, beef, human skeletons, and various woods. Canalised items require permission and include petroleum, mica waste, and mineral ores. Restricted items may be imported or exported but are regulated and include cattle, chemicals, fabrics with religious symbols, and hides and skins. The list of restricted items continues at length.

1. Prohibited items
• All forms of wild life including their parts and products except Peacock
Tail Feathers, including handicrafts made thereof and manufactured
articles, and shavings of Shed Antlers of Chital and Sambhar subject to
conditions.
• Exotic birds
• wild orchids, as well as plants as specified
• Beef
• Human skeletons
• Tallow, fat and/or oils of any animal origin excluding fish oil
• Wood and wood products in the form of logs, timber, stumps, roots,
barks, chips, powder, flakes, dust, pulp and charcoal except sawn
timber made exclusively out of imported teak logs/timber subject to
conditions
• Chemicals included in Schedule 1 of the Chemicals Weapons
Convention of the United Nations
• Sandalwood in any form, but excluding fully finished handicrafts made
out of sandalwood and machine finished sandalwood products
• Red Sanders wood in any form, whether raw, processed or
unprocessed as well as any product made thereof.

2. Canalised items
• Petroleum products
• Mica waste
• Mineral ores , concentrates and compounds
• Niger seeds
• Onions

3. Restricted items
• Cattle, Camel
• Chemical fertilizers
• Dress materials/readymade garments fabrics/textile
items with imprints of excerpts or verses of the Holy
Quran
• H ides and skins
• Viscose staple fibre (Regular), excluding high
performance viscose staple fibre
• Silk worms, silkworm seeds and silk worm cocoons
• And the list goes on and on …