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Abolish inter-state barriers
The 2015 proposal
Abolish inter-state trade barriers to create a uniform national market with easy movement of goods.
Where it stands in 2026
GST (2017) abolished inter-state fiscal barriers and the e-way bill digitised the movement of goods — essentially what the deck asked for.
The open gap
Agricultural marketing itself remains a state subject.
How to sustain & deepen it
Finish the job on the marketing side: a model market-fee framework that clears across states (see #17), so the single market GST created fiscally also exists for agricultural trade.
Sources
- ↗ GST e-way bill system — Goods & Services Tax Network
- ↗ Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2023 — India — OECD, 2023
- ↓ Internal Trade Barriers in India — Working paper (Barnwal, Dingel, Iurchenko, Krishna, Van Leemput), 2023
- ↗ The internal market: general principles — European Parliament (Fact Sheets on the EU), 2024
- ↗ Know About GST: One Nation, One Tax, One Market — Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs, Government of India, 2017