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Definition :

Export, includes the taking or sending out of goods by land, sea or air, on consignment or by way of sale, lease, hire-purchase, or under any other arrangement by whatever name called, and in the case of software, also includes transmission through any electronic media. [The Foreign Exchange Management (Export of Goods and Services Regulations, 2000, s. 2 (iv)]

Means--

(i) taking goods, or providing services, out of India, from a Special Economic Zone, by land, sea or air or by any other mode, whether physical or otherwise; or

(ii) supplying goods, or providing services, from the Domestic Tariff Area to a Unit or Developer; or

(iii) supplying goods, or providing services, from one unit to another unit or Developer, in the same or different Special Economic Zones, Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, sec. 2(m).

With the grammatical variations and cognate expression, means taking out of India of a place outside India, Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, s. 2(d).

It means taking out of India to a place outside India by land, sea or air. [Explosives Act, 1884, s. 4 (e)]

It means taking out of India. [Aircraft Act, 1934, s. 2 (4)]

The word 'export' may conceivably be used in move sense than one. In one sense, 'export' may mean sending or taking out of the country, but in another sense, it may mean sending goods from one country to another. Often, the latter involves a commercial transaction but not necessarily. The contract to which the goods are thus sent is said to import them and the words 'export' and 'import' in this sense are complementary, Burmah Sheil Oil Storage and Distributing Co. of India Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 315: (1961) 1 SCR 902.

With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means taking out of India to a place outside India. [Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), s. 2 (18)]

The concept of export in Art. 286 postulates, just as the word import, the existence of two termini as those between which the goods are intended to move or between which they are intended to be transported, and not a mere movement of goods out of the country without any intention of their being landed in specie in some foreign port, State of Kerala v. Cochin Coal Company Ltd., AIR 1961 SC 408 (410). [Constitution of India, Art. 286]

Export, with its grammatical variation and cog-nate expressions, means:

(i) the taking out of India to a place outside India any goods,

(ii) provision of services from India to any person outside India. [Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1989 (42 of 1999), s. 2(e)]

With its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means taking out of India to a place outside India. [Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003]

It shall have the same meaning assigned to this expression in the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992), s. 4(d).

A product or service created in one country and transferred to another, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 601.