Import / Export Restrictions and Prohibitions

Import/export prohibitions: Customs enforcement triggers confiscation and enhanced penalties for non compliant goods, with sectoral testing and permitting.

Customs enforces import and export prohibitions and restrictions under the Customs Act and allied laws; contraventions render goods Prohibited Goods, subject to confiscation and enhanced penalties. Customs must verify licences, registrations and statutory standards before clearance. Sectoral regimes impose specific documentary, sampling, testing and quarantine requirements for food, plant and animal products, hazardous substances, genetically modified materials, textiles, metal scrap, wood packaging and drugs/cosmetics; non compliance leads to detention, testing, refusal of clearance, deportation or destruction under supervisory protocols.