Part XIII · 3[CHAPTER IV.—RIGHT TO PROPERTY

Article 304 Restrictions on trade, commerce and intercourse among States.

This article lets a State limit trade in its own way. A State may impose reasonable taxes on goods imported from other States in the same manner as local goods. A State may also restrict trade in the public interest, but such a Bill needs the President's previous sanction. The sanction is the Union's check.

1. Notwithstanding anything in article 301 or article 303, the Legislature of a State may by law— (a) impose on goods imported from other States or the Union territories any tax to which similar goods manufactured or produced in that State are subject, so, however, as not to discriminate between goods so imported and goods so manufactured or produced; and (b) impose such reasonable restrictions on the freedom of trade, commerce or intercourse with or within that State as may be required in the public interest: THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA (Part XIII.—Trade, Commerce and Intercourse within the Territory of India) Provided that no Bill or amendment for the purposes of clause (b) shall be introduced or moved in the Legislature of a State without the previous sanction of the President.

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