GOVERNMENT
OF INDIA
MINISTRY
OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
DEPARTMENT
OF COMMERCE
NOTIFICATION
No. 43 (RE-2005) / 2004-2009
S.O.
(E) - In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade
(Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 read with paragraph 2.1 of the Foreign
Trade Policy – 2004-09, the Central Government hereby amends the ITC (HS)
Classification of Export and Import Items 2004-09 as
under:
1. Condition 16 of Chapter 1 A
(General Notes to Import Policy) of the ITC (HS) Classifications of Export and
Import items, 2004-09 shall be amended to read as under:
“16. Import into India of the following livestock and livestock products shall be prohibited from all countries in view of the reported outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Fowl Plague):
(i)
domestic
and wild birds including the captive birds (excluding
poultry);
(ii) unprocessed
meat and meat products from Avian species including wild birds (except
poultry);
(iii)
semen
of domestic and wild birds.
Further,
the Central Government hereby prohibits also the import into
(i)
Live
poultry;
(ii)
day old chicks, ducks, turkey and other
newly hatched avian species;
(iii) meat
and meat product from Avian species including wild birds;
(iv) hatching
eggs;
(v)
eggs
and egg products;
(vi)
feathers;
(vii) live
pig and pig meat products;
(viii) pathological
material and biological products from birds;
(ix)
product of animal origin (from
birds) intended for use in animal feeding or for
agricultural or industrial
use.”
2.
The prohibition shall be in force till further
orders.
This issues in public interest.
(K.T.
Chacko)
Director
General of Foreign Trade
And
Ex-Officio Additional Secretary to the Govt. of
(Issued
from File No.01/89/180/Misc -77/AM04/PC-1A)