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Traders warn government against delay in enforcing new FDI norms
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 Jan, 2019
Traders' body Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) on Wednesday
urged the government not to accept the demand by e-commerce majors to
delay implementing the new foreign direct investment (FDI) rules in
e-Commerce, while acceeding to such a delay would result in the
government losing the votes of small traders in the coming general
elections.
At a press conference here, CAIT also demanded that
the government make it mandatory for the e-commerce companies to obtain a
compliance certificate as on March 3, 2019, and companies without such a
certificate should face restrictions in operating their ecommerce
portals.
"The major chunk of seven crore traders will not vote
for them (government) because any extension or any change in the policy
will run against the genuine interest of small traders," CAIT Secretary
General Praveen Khandelwal said. "We will be compelled to launch an
agitation if the government doesn't listen to us," he said.
e-commerce
giants, Walmart-owned Flipkart and American multinational Amazon, have
sought an extension of the FDI implementation deadline of February 1 on
the grounds that the changed regulations require extensive restructuring
of their business model.
"The companies should not be allowed to
raise funds until compliance certificate is obtained. Already companies
have circumvented law by converting the marketplace to an open market
for B2C (business-to-consumer) business, which is against the FDI policy
and its letter and spirit," Khandelwal said.
"We will be compelled to launch an agitation if the government doesn't listen to us."
As
per the new norms, online marketplaces like Flipkart and Amazon have
been barred from selling products of companies where they hold stakes
and the government has also banned exclusive marketing arrangements that
could influence product prices.
CAIT pointed out that the norms
are being flouted by foreign e-commerce majors and said that the FDI
regulations related to e-commerce companies should be implemented on
domestic online players as well to check their adopting any unethical
business practices.
"It was clear from modus operandi that these
market places were probably hoping that these infringements would be
ignored once the operations become the norm," Khandelwal said.
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