DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Govt to discuss proposed India e-commerce policy on Thursday
DPIIT will hold an interministerial consultation on the proposed e-commerce policy, which seeks to set up a regulator for the sector and protect the data generated by Indian consumers.
India planning tighter FDI rules for e-commerce sector
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SC seeks reply from Centre, 61 firms on PIL alleging duty evasion in iron ore exports to China
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde took...
Slow global economy: High cyber fraud cases on Indian exporters
While the government has said that such cyber frauds are causing increased bilateral trade disputes and asked exporters to be cautious, exporters expect such instances to increase.
India, US negotiating on wide range of trade concerns: Congressional report
"The United States and India are negotiating on a wide range of trade concerns, including greater access to the Indian market for US agricultural products, potentially in exchange for US restoration of India's eligibility under GSP. The current status of the negotiations has not been disclosed," the latest report by independent Congressional Research Service (CRS) said.
Income Tax Department surveys offices of Swiggy and Flipkart unit
The I-T Department is conducting a survey at Flipkart Group company Instakart and Swiggy in connection with an alleged bogus input tax credit taken by an external vendor.
Biden picks Rhode Island Gov. Raimondo as commerce secretary
Raimondo, a former venture capitalist, is in her second term as governor and previously served as state treasurer. Her name had been floated for Biden's health secretary, though she said last month she would be staying in Rhode Island and continuing to focus on the coronavirus pandemic.
Even small Chinese investments likely to face government scrutiny
In April, the government had made changes to the FDI policy to scan all investments from neighbouring countries with an eye on Chinese inflows that had begun to dominate certain sectors, especially those related to technology.
Import monitoring system being developed for several sectors: Commerce Ministry
The system would help gather advanced information on imports of these products and make it available to the stakeholders, including government and domestic industries.
DoT asks e-commerce websites to pull down listings of mobile signal boosters
Installation, possession or selling of illegal repeater is a punishable offence as per the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 and Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. Such illegal equipment interferes with all mobile networks, impacts signal quality and degrades network experience in the entire area.
China threatens countermeasure after US blacklists 59 of its firms
Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Saturday said that the US has "abused" export controls to suppress enterprises, institutions, and individuals of other countries, Xinhua reported.
Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems
Microsoft also had its own products leveraged to attack victims, said people familiar with the matter
U.S. court to hear appeal challenging order blocking TikTok app store ban
The ban would have required Apple Inc and Alphabet's Google to remove the app from their stores, preventing new users from downloading it or existing users downloading updated versions. It would not have stopped existing users from accessing the app on their devices.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) likely to be attached with department of commerce
The commerce ministry argues that since BIS is related to framing quality standards for goods services and items which broadly deal with commerce ministry, the department should be attached with commerce ministry.
Department of commerce proactively engaging with states to promote exports: Wadhawan
The secretary also requested state governments to extend their support to take forward the initiatives to boost country's outbound shipments.
