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通过东盟贸易协定进入的廉价进口产品可能会打击印度制造

在被指控滥用职权后,印度收入情报局(Directorate of Revenue Intelligence,简称DRI)正在调查根据自由贸易协定进口的移动电话和其他电信和IT设备。

新德里:印度推动经济增长的大计划印度制造'通过更高进口关税由于滥用与东南亚国家联盟(asean)的自由贸易协定,来自海外的廉价产品进入了越南。

税收情报局,或者DRI,现就流动电话及其他电讯及资讯科技设备的进口进行查询自由贸易协定路线被指控虐待后。“该机构已被要求调查这个问题,”一名了解事态发展的政府官员表示。印度于2017年7月对智能手机征收关税,随后在今年的预算中提高了关税。预算中还增加了汽车零部件、电视LED/LCD和OLED面板、果汁、智能手表和太阳镜的关税。

这个想法是通过抑制进口来鼓励“印度制造”。然而,据说一些出口商已经开始利用东盟国家将出口运往印度,以逃避更高的关税。另一名政府官员表示:“政府事件中敲响警钟的是,中国的手机等商品通过东盟(Asean)成员国入境时,没有任何实质性的增值,违反了原产地规则。”电子和信息技术部已致函财政部,指出来自马来西亚的手机突然涌入。

今年4 - 5月,中国从马来西亚的进口额从去年同期的13.6亿美元增长49%,至20亿美元。从东盟国家的进口总额从2014财年的413亿美元增加到2018财年的471亿美元。同期,印度的出口额从331亿美元增长至342亿美元。政府试图通过分阶段的制造计划来鼓励在印度制造手机,并不希望其刚刚取得的成功受到此类事件的影响,并致力于迅速纠正这种情况。

大约有120家手机制造公司在印度开展业务。印度和东盟之间的自由贸易协定允许以零关税或优惠关税从一个成员国进口商品,前提是该成员国已经进行了合理的增值。该规则要求35%的附加值,否则印度可以拒绝关税优惠。这不是第一次出现滥用原产地规则的情况。DRI调查了印度-泰国,印度-韩国和-东盟自由贸易协定。


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NEW DELHI: India\u2019s big plan to boost \u2018Make in India<\/a>\u2019 through higher import duties<\/a> has encountered turbulence, with cheap products from overseas being routed into the country by misusing the freetrade agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, or
DRI<\/a>, is enquiring into imports of mobile phones and other telecom and IT equipment under the FTA<\/a> route after allegations of abuse. \u201cThe agency has been asked to look into the issue,\u201d said a government official privy to the development. India imposed customs duty on smartphones in July 2017 and subsequently increased the levy in the budget this year. Customs duties were also increased for automobile components, television LED\/LCD and OLED panels, fruits juices, smart watches and sunglasses in the budget.

The idea was to encourage \u2018Make in India\u2019 by disincentivising imports. However, some exporters are said to have started using Asean countries to route their exports to India to evade higher duties. What has rung alarm bells in the government is the entry of goods such as mobiles from China via an Asean member country without any substantial value addition, in violation of rules of origin, another government official said. The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology has written to the finance ministry pointing at the sudden influx of mobile phones from Malaysia.