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COFFEE 
12. Coffee plants, coffee seeds, and coffee beans shall not be Imported 
into India except for experimental planting purposes only by the Director of 
Research, Indian Coffee Board, Bangalore, who shall take all measures neces- 
sary to ensure that such coffee plants, beans, or seeds as are imported by 
him are free from plant diseases and injurious insects: 
Provided , that the prohibition hereinbofore contained shall not apply 
to (i) roasted and ground coffee, or (ii) a consignment of unroasted or 
unground coffee beans or seeds produced in India or in Burma and covered by 
a certificate of origin signed by an authorized official. 
13. Flax seeds and berseem (Egyptian clover) seeds shall not be im- 
ported into India by sea, unless the consignee produces before the Collector 
of Customs a license from a Department of Agriculture in India in that be- 
half 
RAW COTTON 
ll+. (l) Unginned cotton, other than cotton from a port of Saurashtra or 
of the Lasbella or Kalat State which has been produced in India shall not 
be imported by sea or by air. 
(2) Cottonseed shall not be imported by sea save for experimental pur- 
poses by one of the Directors of Agriculture and shall not be so imported 
by such officer save at the port of Bombay and in quantities not exceeding 
one hundredweight in any one consignment and on condition that it will be 
fumigated on importation with carbon bisulphide or methyl bromide: Provided , 
that, if the cottonseed is accompanied by a certificate from a Government 
Entomologist of the country of origin to the effect that the seed and its 
container have been treated in such a way as to destroy all insect life, the 
seed shall be examined on importation by such officer as the Central Govern- 
ment may appoint and shall not be required to be refumigated unless such 
examination shows that refumigation is necessary. 
GINNED COTTON 
Notification No. 1581, A&ri., dated October 1, 1931, as amended up to 
April 18, 1950, Regulating the Import into British India of American Cotton 
or West Indies cotton. 
Definitions 
1. In this order: 
(i) "Cotton" includes ginned cotton, and droppings, strippings, fly 
and other waste products of a cotton mill, other than yarn waste, but does 
not include cottonseed or unginned cotton. 
