Prohibition on import of certain goods - 001/1964 - Customs - Non Tariff

(Department of Revenue) Notification No. 1/ 1964 - Customs (As amended by Notification No. 48/2007 dated 8/5/2007) New Delhi, the 18th January, 1964 GSR 87- In exercise of the powers conferred by section 11 of the Customs Act, 1962 ( 52 of 1962) and in suppression of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 41- Cus., dated the 1st February, 1963, the Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, for the purposes specified in sub-section (2) of that section, hereby prohibits the import of the following goods, namely:- i. Counterfeit coin or coin made under the Native Coinage Act, 1876, or Indian Coin, which is not of the established standard in weight or fitness: ii. any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, drawing, painting, representation, figure or article: iii.Omitted iv.Omitted v. goods made or produced beyond the limits of India and having applied thereto any name or trade mark being or purporting to be the name or trade mark of any person who is manufacturer, dealer or trader in India unless- a. The name of trade mark is, as to every application thereof, accompanied by a definite indication of the goods having been made or produced in a place beyond the limits of India, and b. The country in which that place is situated is in that indication indicated in letters as large and conspicuous as any letter in the name of trade mark and in the English language: (vi) piece goods manufactured outside India, such as are ordinarily sold by length or by the piece, if each piece has not been conspicuously marked- a. with the name of the manufacturer, exporter, or whole-sale purchaser in India, of the goods, and b. with the real length of the piece in standard yards or standard meters inscribed in the international form of numerals; (vii) Omitted (viii) goods which are required by a notification under section 139 of the Trade Marks Act,1999, to have applied to them an indication of the country or place in which they were made or produced or the name and address of the manufacturer or the person for whom the goods were manufactured unless such goods show such indication applied in the manner specified in the notification;. (ix) cotton yarn manufactured outside India, such as is ordinarily imported in bundles, if each bundle containing such yarn has not been conspicuously marked- a. with the name of the manufacturer /exporter, or whole-sale purchaser in India, of the goods, and b. with an indication of the weight and the count of the yarn contained in it, accordance with the rules made under section 82 of the Trade Marks Act,1999 (x) cotton sewing, darning crochet or handicraft thread manufactured outside India, if each of the units in which the thread is supplied has not been conspicuously marked- a. with the name of the manufacturer, exporter, or whole-sale purchase in India, of the goods, and b. with the length or weight of the thread contained in it and in such other manner as is required by the rules made under section 82 of the Trade Marks Act,1999 (No.1 Cus/F.No.4/10.63Cus.VIII) S.VENKATESAN Dy.Secretary (Clauses (iii),(iv) and (vii) has been omitted; by Notification No. 48/2007 dated 8/5/2007) (In clause (viii), for the words and figures " section 117 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958," the words and figures " section 139 of the Trade Marks Act,1999" has been substituted; by Notification No. 48/2007 dated 8/5/2007) (In sub-clause (b), for the words and figures " section 75 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958," the words and figures " section 82 of the Trade Marks Act,1999" has been substituted; by Notification No. 48/2007 dated 8/5/2007) (In sub-clause (b), for the words and figures " section 75 of the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958," the words and figures " section 82 of the Trade Marks Act,1999" has been substituted; by Notification No. 48/2007 dated 8/5/2007)