Prior registration requirement for cotton exports conditions Customs clearance and culminates in prohibition for specified cotton codes. The notification amends ITC (HS) Schedule 2 Table B to require prior registration of contracts for exports of raw and carded/combed cotton and certain cotton yarns with DGFT (formerly Textile Commissioner), conditions Customs clearance on such registration, implements temporary licence or cap-based restrictions in successive substitutions, and records that later amendments ultimately classified specified cotton entries as prohibited for export; measures are taken under the Foreign Trade Act and declared in public interest.