Month: March 2023

With the festival of colours just around the corner, markets, like every year, are flooded with Holi colours, sprayers and other decoratives- this time with a touch of Atmanibhar Bharat.

As customers go shopping this Holi, they are increasingly rejecting Chinese products and preferring local Made in India products.

ANI visited Delhi’s famous Sadar Bazar and found most of the traders are offering Made in India colours, pichkaris, and gulals, among other items.

“At large, the public’s responses are more towards Indian products. Consumers are more into buying local products and Chinese products are no more attractive among buyers,” said Javed, a Sadar Bazar vendor who is selling such items.

He also named a few local manufacturers who are into Holi products and are in high demand.

“Make in India initiative is moving ahead. People come to our shops and ask us to show only local products,” Javed added.

In the past, Chinese products largely were the only options for consumers, which has drastically changed for the better with several local makers making inroads in this segment.

“I demanded Indian products…Chinese products have declined and Indian products are replacing them,” said a customer Ravi.

Another customer Rajiv, who visited Sadar Bazar to purchase Holi products for his children, said, localised manufacturing is giving jobs to people.

“I came to purchase ‘pichkari’ for my children and I felt nice that all items that are on display in the markets are India-made. Chinese products are nowhere to be seen,” Rajiv added.

Quality in Chinese products seemed to be a major concern among consumers and traders.

“Quality of Indian products are better, and Chinese products are typically for single use,” Rajiv further said.

Rohini Gupta, a Ghaziabad resident, who came down to Sadar Bazar to buy Holi colours echoed the same concern and told ANI that whatever she bought were only Indian products.

Notably, demand for Holi products too fully recovered after the pandemic-led low-key celebration.

“Demand for pichkaris has been high. We are only selling Indian products. Demnand for Chinese products in Indian markets declined due to rising complaints from retailers as they cannot be returned in case of defects,” said Mohamad Babar, another vendor. (ANI)

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Kenyan traders are staging protests against Chinese businesses in the country, raising slogans that “Chinese must go!”

The demonstration comes in the wake of controversy elicited by the coming of China Square retail outlet of general merchandise whose prices are on average 45 per cent lower than those prevailing in locally owned enterprises, reported Africa.com.
Dressed in dust coats used in their retail outlets, over 1000 traders early this month marched to the office of the deputy president and to parliament to submit a petition against the Chinese retailers.

“The Chinese cannot be importers, retailers, wholesalers, and hawkers,” read one placard held aloft during the protest. Some chanted “Chinese must go!” reported Africa.com.

Kenyan traders from downtown centres have said that the Chinese traders have driven them out of business and claimed that they were selling goods at affordable low rates.

Speaking to The Standard, Peris, an electronics dealer at Nyamakima said, “I’m here to protest against the Chinese traders’ invasion of the Kenyan market. The foreigners are playing the manufacturer and seller’s role at the same time, which shouldn’t be the case. In Kenya, they are the distributors and retailers. They’ve locked us out of business.”

Trade Minister Moses Kuria has offered to take over China Square’s lease from its Chinese owner and hand it to local traders, but Korir Sing’oei, the principal secretary at Kenya’s ministry of foreign affairs, stressed on Twitter that all investors are welcome, irrespective of their nationality.

Wu Peng, the top African official at China’s ministry of foreign affairs welcomed Sing’oei’s assurance on Twitter. (ANI)

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