Prohibited and Restricted Imports
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Section 45 of the Customs Act, Chapter 78:01 outlines a list of prohibited items requiring an import license:
- 2, 4, 5 Trichlorophenyl
- Aldrin, Dieldrin and Endrin
- Animal oils, fats and greases, unrefined
- Chlordimeform
- Coconut in all forms; including coconut seedlings, copra, desiccated coconut, coconut milk, and coconut cream (excluding coconut oil)
- Copra
- Dibromochloropropane (DBCP)
- Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT)
- Ethylene dibromide (EDB)
- Fatty acids and solid residues from the treatment of oils and fats
- Fresh fish (live or dead), chilled or frozen: shrimp, lobster, crabmeat
- Lead arsenate
- Left-hand drive motor vehicles imported under section 45(A) of the Customs Act, Chap.78:01
- Live poultry
- Oil seed cake, meal and other vegetable oil residues
- Oilseeds, beans, nuts
- Ozone depleting substances (ODS) (Tariff Heading No. 2903) and mixtures containing ODS
- Equipment requiring the use of ODS (Tariff Heading No. 8414, 8415)
- Refrigerators, freezers and other refrigerating or freezing equipment, heat pumps and their parts for domestic and commercial use (Tariff Heading No. 84:18), air or vacuum pumps and compressors and their parts, dehumidifiers, air conditioning machines/units and their parts
- Paper for wrapping tobacco or cigarette
- Parathion, ethyl
- Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
- Ships and boats (under 250 tons)
- Thallium and its salts
- Used right-hand drive garbage compactors exceeding 15 tons (15000kg) MGW
- Used right-hand drive vehicles
- Vegetable fats
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