Prohibited Items
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- Prohibited Items
- 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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