https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=373568 A notification banning export of all shark fins was examined as subordinate legislation under delegated foreign trade power and was upheld because it was supported by public-interest and ecological concerns. The court treated the measure as open to limited judicial review only for conflict with the parent statute, inconsistency with other law, or manifest arbitrariness, and found none. It accepted the government's material on conservation needs, difficulty in identifying shark species at sea, and prevention of indiscriminate finning. The challenge based on lack of wider departmental consultation and the presence of a non-governmental participant in the policy process also failed, and stricter domestic trade restrictions were held capable of operating alongside international CITES obligations. en-us Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:53:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=373568 A notification banning export of all shark fins was examined as subordinate legislation under delegated foreign trade power and was upheld because it was supported by public-interest and ecological concerns. The court treated the measure as open to limited judicial review only for conflict with the parent statute, inconsistency with other law, or manifest arbitrariness, and found none. It accepted the government's material on conservation needs, difficulty in identifying shark species at sea, and prevention of indiscriminate finning. The challenge based on lack of wider departmental consultation and the presence of a non-governmental participant in the policy process also failed, and stricter domestic trade restrictions were held capable of operating alongside international CITES obligations. Case-Laws Customs Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=373568