The Commerce Department prepared a list of these pieces last year. Officials have now begun the procedure under the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat initiative to increase exports and imports.
The government is taking accelerated steps to reduce Chinese imports. The Ministry of Commerce has known more than three hundred pieces ranging from auto parts, telecommunications parts, rubber parts, glass, among others, that would be subject to the mandatory Indian Standards (IS) regime until March 2021.
With this, the government will curb the import of lower quality products, which come in much of China. The Commerce Department prepared a list of these pieces last year. Officials have now begun the procedure under the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat initiative to increase exports and reduce imports.
The government is developing mandatory criteria to curb 371 imported tariff lines, adding Chinese products, the head of the Office of Indian Standards (BIS) Pramod Kumar Tiwari told the Times of India, adding that the BIS was also getting better application in government. ports stopped.
In addition, the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Ram Vilas Paswan, presented the BIS and cellular application (BIS-Care) to verify the authenticity of ISI and branded products. The ministry contacted the BIS to identify the mandatory criteria. The BIS holder said the criteria will be in effect until December for maximum products and the rest until March next year.
Meanwhile, BIS has also intensified product tracking by visiting factories and markets. Paswan asked BIS to carry out rigorous market monitoring to review packaging criteria such as country of origin, MRP, production dates, expiration dates, among others.
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