The law on religious freedom, which the Government enforces, prohibits foreigners from proselytizing.

Rules prohibits foreigners from buying local shares, which trade at a far lower price than the shares that trade abroad.

Over the next 300 years China would become extremely isolated from foreign merchants; China prohibited foreigners or foreign trade and languages other than Chinese.

The Fujairah government prohibits foreigners from owning more than 49% of any business.

King Haakon V of Norway prohibited foreigners from trading in North Norway as early as 1316.

But authorities are bound by Article 27 of the Mexican constitution, which prohibits foreigners from owning property within 50 kilometers (about 31 miles) of the coast.

But the measure, which requires one more vote before it goes to the upper house, passed only after the government agreed to a late amendment prohibiting foreigners to own agricultural property.

The bill, approved 258-149, prohibits foreigners from owning farmland but allows them to lease plots for up to 49 years.

The country's constitution also prohibits foreigners from owning any land within 40 kilometers of its borders for security reasons.

He established an army equipped with guns and prohibited most foreigners from entering his kingdom.