MADE-IN-CHINA LABELS SOON ON PRODUCTS SOLD BY E-TAILERS?

NEWDELHI: The government is considering making it mandatory for all retailers and e-commerce entities to display the country of origin on every product they sell so that consumers have a choice between local and imported goods, people aware of the development said.

The ministry of commerce on Wednesday held a stakeholders’ meeting on ways to enforce explicit labelling of goods after it was made mandatory for products sold on the state-run trading platform Government e-Marketplace (GeM) from Tuesday, the people cited above said.

Bloomberg reported that Amazon.com and Flipkart agreed to compel merchants to start prominently displaying “country of origin“for all goods.