Quantitative restrictions on imports of capital goods and intermediates have been almost completely removed. The import of second hand capital goods is allowed, provided they have a residual life of 5 years.

Import of all items, except those included in the Prohibited List, is permissible free of duty for export production under a Duty Exemption scheme. In order to facilitate expeditious approvals of import proposals under this scheme, input-output norms for more than 3,000 items have been announced.Negative List consisting of: prohibited list, canalised items, restricted list