India will impose import restrictions on 371 types of Chinese goods
On July 28, according to “India Today” media reports: After suppressing Chinese APPs, the Indian government is Consider imposing import restrictions on more than 370 Chinese goods.
This is after India announced in April this year that it will implement BIS compulsory certification inspections for 12 major products including lighting, keyboards, Bluetooth headsets, USB external hard drives, induction cookers, rice cookers, etc. from October 1. An expanded compulsory product certification inspection will be fully implemented by March next year.
According to the media report, the government is considering imposing import restrictions on various goods imported mainly from China. According to a report published by The Times of India, items such as toys, steel pipes, steel bars, consumer electronics, telecommunications products, heavy machinery, paper, rubber products, glass, etc. will be included in India’s mandatory standards (BIS) system next year. From March 2021, many non-compliant and non-essential imports will begin to be restricted. Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said that many substandard and non-essential imported products will be stopped from March 2021 after the Bureau of Indian Standards prepares the Ministry of Commerce’s regulations on high-quality imported products.
BIS will formulate mandatory certification standards for 371 product projects by March 2021. The report stated that these 371 tax items include multiple sub-sectors, ranging from steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical machinery to furniture and toys. Mandatory certification standards for most products will be formulated before December, and for the remaining products by March 2021. The measure will suspend the import of substandard products, the report said.
The media stated that although the Indian government’s purpose is to eliminate substandard imports, this move seems to be more aimed at reducing imports from China as much as possible. Not only Chinese products, the Indian government is also suppressing many Chinese BIS certification applications.
As early as April 22 this year, India issued a notification on technical trade measures (notification number: G/TBT/N/IND/44/Add.7), announcing the fourth batch of “Electronic and Information Technology Products” (Mandatory registration requirements) 2012 Act” product catalog, 12 new products are added, including 2 LED lighting products, 5 information products, 3 audio-visual products and 2 home appliances products, including lighting, keyboards, Bluetooth Headphones, USB external hard drives, induction cookers, rice cookers, etc.
At the same time, the notification also pointed out that the new catalog will be implemented six months after the release date, that is, effective from October 1, 2020.
At present, India has issued 4 batches of product catalogs under the “Electronics and Information Technology Products (Compulsory Registration Requirements) Act 2012”, including 56 information products, home appliances, audio and video, and lighting products into the compulsory registration requirements.
For these products, the law requires that they must be tested and registered according to corresponding standards in a laboratory recognized by BIS in India, and the BIS logo must be affixed to the body or outer packaging. At present, BIS has issued more than 30,000 product certification certificates, covering almost every industrial field such as agricultural products, textiles, and electronics. More and more product categories exported to India are included in the category of compulsory certification products.
Close the dock! The strike escalates
Dockworkers in Montreal, Canada launched a four-day strike on Monday morning due to the failure to reach a labor agreement with their employers.
Originally the strike action was planned to start at 07:00 on Monday and end at 06:59 on Friday.
The strike continues to ferment, and the Executive Committee of the Port of Montreal Alliance announced that the 24-hour strike will end on Saturday!
During this separate 24-hour strike period, the terminals will remain closed to allow all strike activity to proceed.
Union members affiliated with the Canadian Union of Public Employees will not provide any mooring services during the strike, except to provide supplies to Newfoundland and Labrador and for grain ships to comply with the decision of the Canadian Industrial Relations Commission. Provide supplies.
Union spokesman Michel Murray said: “The current situation is that dock workers are required to work 19 consecutive days out of 21, 365 days a year, except for public holidays and when the port is closed.”
The strike does not affect liquid bulk handling, Oceanex services or grain terminal services, the port said.
Container terminals that will be affected by the strike include: Racine and Cast container terminals operated by the Montreal Gateway Terminal Cooperative (MGTP).
The shipping companies served by these two terminals include CMA CGM, COSCO Shipping, Orient Overseas, Hapag-Lloyd and Maersk Line.
Shipping alliance begins to resume some routes
Xinde Maritime Network observed that container shipping companies A number of sailings that were previously suspended during the epidemic are being gradually resumed.
The shipping consulting company Sea Intelligence wrote in its latest communication report that shipping companies have resumed 21 voyages on the Pacific route from Asia to the west coast of North America.
Among them, THE Alliance has made the greatest recovery effort. This alliance composed of Hapag-Lloyd, Yang Ming Shipping, HMM and ONE Shipping has resumed 15 of its Asia-NAWC voyages. Sea Intelligence stated that this was mainly due to THE Alliance’s relatively aggressive approach in canceling sailings earlier this year.A radical approach.
Overall, major liner companies have resumed a total of 49 voyages on trans-Pacific and Eurasian routes in the third quarter.
Sea intelligence analysis shows that shipping companies are gradually seeing an improvement in container freight demand, and people’s concerns about the demand for Pacific routes due to the new crown epidemic have also eased.
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