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[Global Times correspondent Hu Bofeng in India] The government is wary of too many gifts from China. According to the report of the Economic Times of India on November 11, the Indian government is worried that more and more people are buying goods online from China, which will adversely affect the local manufacturing industry. Therefore, it intends to take restrictive measures. According to official sources in India, the restrictions involve some Chinese e-commerce platforms and applications, which may be reflected in the upcoming revision of India's national e-commerce policy.
According to Indian law, goods purchased online from overseas are worth less than 5,000 rupees (about 480 yuan), which can be used as "gifts" for duty-free customs clearance. But in recent years, more and more gifts have come from China. According to the report, Club Factory, a Chinese e-commerce company, said in September that it had 40 million customers in India, accounting for more than half of its global customers. Another Chinese business, Shein, doubled its business in India in less than a year, serving more than 1 million active users, handling more than 10,000 orders a day, with an average order value of 10,000 to 15,000 rupees. In addition, Indian industry has complained to the government that these Chinese e-commerce companies abuse India's customs import duty-free quota policy.
In September this year, Indian Minister of Commerce and Industry Prabhu led a working group to re-examine the national e-commerce policy. Senior officials of the Bureau of Industrial Policy and Promotion responsible for specific work told local media that they proposed to limit the purchase of four items per person per year for goods purchased online in China. "We have put forward a cap on purchasing, but the final execution has to be completed by the customs," the official said.
At present, most of the online purchases in India come from China. These products are of good quality and low price and are very popular. People can trade directly through the Internet and deliver it anywhere in India, which has a direct impact on Indian manufacturing industry, "the Economic Times quoted an Indian e-commerce expert as saying." Restriction of purchases is one of the solutions, but the problem is how to regulate it. Chinese e-commerce will not require customers to provide identity certificates, so it is difficult to effectively track such transactions.
Prakash, an ordinary Indian living in New Delhi, told reporters, "This policy may have a good market among Indian nationalists, who have been calling for a boycott of Chinese goods and investment in China. But to be honest, it's not wise. Online Chinese products are very cheap and popular with Indian people. Most importantly, many products made in China can not be found in India at all, or the price is much more expensive. I don't understand why the government restricts them.
(Source: Global Network)