Prohibited Items

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  • Live Stock and its Articles
  • Live animals, Cash (current legal tender)
  • Commemorative Coins or Medals, High Valuable Collectables
  • Comics or Books (First Editions), Trading Cards, Stamps, Memorabilia
  • Financial and monetary commodities
  • Illegal goods, such as illicit drugs, narcotics stimulants, depressants, or hallucinogens. Cannabis or its derivatives
  • Toy guns, firearm parts, firearm attachments, ammunition parts, Tasers, or controlled military items
  • Firearm attachments such as mountings, sights, night vision, gunstocks, silencers, torches, magazines, or clips, flash suppressors and signature reduction devices
  • Activated SIM cards
  • Air guns, replica and imitation firearms
  • Alcohol/tobacco/drugs/poisonous goods
  • Animal Raw Skins/Furs
  • Antiques (objects over 100 years old)
  • APO / FPO / DPO Addresses
  • Arms & Ammunitions
  • Asbestos
  • Biological Substance, Category B
  • Bullion (of any precious metal)
  • Contraband including illicit drugs and counterfeit goods
  • Corrosive items (acids, chemicals, radioactive material, etc.)
  • Cremated or Disinterred Human Remains
  • Currency, Cheques, Bullion, Payment Cards, Traveler Cheques, Stamps
  • Dangerous goods prohibited by IATA/ICAO/Govt
  • Dry Ice
  • Drugs (Cocaine, Cannabis resin, LSD, Morphine, Opium, etc.)
  • Edible Oils, Rice bran, Fodder
  • Electronic cigarettes
  • Endangered species/plants under CITES
  • Explosives (arms, fireworks, flares, airbag inflators)
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Fireworks and incendiary/flammable items
  • Flammable items (crackers, oils, adhesives, paints)
  • Gambling devices, lottery tickets
  • Gold, Silver, Platinum, Gem & Jewelry
  • Gases (compressed, liquefied, dissolved)
  • Hazardous Waste (syringes, medical waste)
  • High capacity batteries (car/generator batteries)
  • Human & Animal Embryos/Remains/Organs
  • Hunting trophies
  • Indian Postal Articles
  • Industrial Diamonds
  • Ivory and ivory products
  • Ketamine & other Narcotics/Psychotropics
  • Knives
  • LEDs, LCDs, OLED, Plasma & TV Screens
  • Letter of Credit / Bill of Lading
  • Liquid Chemicals & other liquid products
  • Lottery tickets where prohibited
  • Machinery parts containing oil/grease/fuel
  • Magnetized material
  • Marijuana (including medical use)
  • Meat and Edible Meat of all kinds
  • Narcotic drugs and Psychotropic substances
  • Negotiable Currency, Passports, IDs
  • Oxidizers & Peroxides (fertilizers, dyes, weed killers)
  • Plants and plant material (seeds, cut flowers)
  • Pornographic material
  • Precious/semi-precious metals or stones
  • Radioactive material (Uranium, Thorium, etc.)
  • Sand/Soil and Ores
  • Sandalwood and its oils
  • Sea shells & handicrafts
  • SCOMET items (restricted chemicals & tech)
  • Sword
  • Toner (Photocopier)
  • Toxic & infectious substances (arsenic, cyanide, poisons, Ebola, etc.)
  • Wet Ice (Frozen Water)
  • Wood and wood pulp/products
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Artificial Jewelry
  • Auto parts with fluids in them
  • Banderols/Tax stickers (value > EUR 500,000)
  • Cannabis for medicinal purposes (with licence, tablet or liquid form only, business case required)
  • Carnets
  • Cigarettes, cigars, tobacco products & e-cigarettes (value > EUR 500,000)
  • Commemorative coins and medals (value ≥ EUR 2,000)
  • Food stuffs & Perishable food requiring refrigeration
  • Lithium Batteries
  • Loose Pearls
  • Maps/literature showing Indian boundaries incorrectly
  • Other Regulated Material (ORM-D)
  • Passports (Govt approval required)
  • Seeds
  • Shipments requiring special License/Permit
  • Televisions
  • Time-sensitive/critical documents (bids, contracts)
  • Tobacco
  • Used Merchandise
  • Watches
  • Works of art
  • Acetrophine
  • Alfentanil
  • Allobarbital
  • Alphacetylmethadol
  • Alprazolam
  • Amfepramone
  • Amfetamine
  • Amineptine
  • Amobarbital
  • Amphetamine
  • Anileridine
  • Benzylmorphine
  • Beta-Hydroxy-3-methyl fentanyl
  • Betaprodine
  • Bromazepam
  • Brotizolam
  • Buprenorphine
  • Camazepam
  • Chlordiazepoxide
  • Clobazam
  • Clonazepam
  • Clorazepate
  • Clotiazepam
  • Codeine
  • Codeinone
  • Codinovo
  • Delorazepam
  • Delta-9-tetrahydro-cannabinol
  • Dexamfetamine
  • Dexamphetamine
  • Dextropropoxyphene
  • Diazepam
  • Dicodide
  • Diconone
  • Diethylpropion
  • Difenoxin
  • Dihydrocodeine
  • Dihydromorphine
  • Dihydroxy
  • Dilaudide
  • Dimorphid
  • Dionine
  • Diphenoxylate
  • Diphenoxylic Acid
  • Dipipanone
  • Dronabinol
  • Estazolam
  • Ethyl Loflazepate
  • Ethylmorphine
  • Fencamfamin
  • Fenethylline
  • Fenetylline
  • Fentanyl
  • Flurazepam
  • Flunitrazepam
  • Glutethimide
  • Hybernil
  • Hycodan
  • Hydrocodone
  • Hydromorphone
  • Ketamine
  • Ketazolam
  • Levamfetamine
  • Loprazolam
  • Lorazepam
  • Lormetazepam
  • Mazindol
  • Medazepam
  • Meprobamate
  • Mesocarb
  • Metamfetamine
  • Methadone
  • Methamphetamine
  • Methylphenidate
  • Midazolam
  • Morphine
  • Multacodin
  • Nicomorphine
  • Nimetazepam
  • Nitrazepam
  • Nomocodeine
  • Novalaudon
  • Nycodide
  • Oxazepam
  • Oxycodone
  • Oxymorphone
  • Paramorfan
  • Pemoline
  • Pentazocine
  • Pentobarbital
  • Pethidine
  • Phendimetrazine
  • Phenmetrazine
  • Phenobarbital
  • Phentermine
  • Phocodine
  • Prazepam
  • Propiram
  • Racemate
  • Remifentanil
  • Secobarbital
  • Sufentanil
  • Tetrazepam
  • Tilidine
  • Tramadol
  • Triazolam
  • Zipeprol
  • Zolpidem

Definition: Commodities, which possess potentially hazardous characteristics. These are as the laid out by IATA in the Dangerous Goods Regulations.

The categories of dangerous goods are:

  • Class 1: Explosives
  • Class 2: Gases
  • Class 3: Flammable Liquids
  • Class 4: Flammable Solids
  • Class 5: Oxidizers and Organic Peroxides
  • Class 6: Toxic & Infectious Substances
  • Class 7: Radioactive Material
  • Class 8: Corrosives
  • Class 9: Miscellaneous (e.g. Magnets hazardous to aircraft equipment)
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