Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§263 Prohibition of Trade by President
Title 25 › CHAPTER 6 — GOVERNMENT OF INDIAN COUNTRY AND RESERVATIONS › SUBCHAPTER III — TRADERS WITH INDIANS › § 263
Summary
President may bar a tribe's goods from entering the country if he believes it serves the public interest. He can cancel that tribe's trade licenses and stop any trader—even those licensed for other tribes—from trading with or for its members while the ban lasts.
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Title 25, §263
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The President is authorized, whenever in his opinion the public interest may require the same, to prohibit the introduction of goods, or of any particular article, into the country belonging to any Indian tribe, and to direct all licenses to trade with such tribe to be revoked, and all applications therefor to be rejected. No trader to any other tribe shall, so long as such prohibition may continue, trade with any Indians of or for the tribe against which such prohibition is issued.
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Codification R.S. § 2132 derived from act June 30, 1834, ch. 161, § 3, 4 Stat. 729.
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25 U.S.C. § 263
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102