{"id":236897,"date":"2023-04-08T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=236897"},"modified":"2023-04-10T13:17:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T07:47:20","slug":"india-is-well-within-its-right-to-ensure-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-is-well-within-its-right-to-ensure-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India is well within its right to ensure quality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cIndia is well within its right to ensure quality\u201d <\/strong>published in the <strong>\u201cmint\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>8th April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>&#8211; Issue related to trade<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; several WTO members objected to India issuing quality control orders(QCO) for products of mass consumption, such as machinery safety equipment, pressure cookers, toys and air conditioners, to curb a Chinese import surge and boost exports.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is the quality control order compliant with WTO provisions?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>QCOs are <strong>first applied in the domestic market<\/strong> and only then are they <strong>imposed on imports<\/strong>. So, India has<strong> rights to bring QCOs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>western countries impose quality norms on our products. So, India is <strong>duty-bound to retaliate<\/strong> by imposing QCOs on their products. According to <strong>WTO rule<\/strong>s, members should use <strong>similar standards<\/strong> for domestic as well<\/p>\n<p>QCOs cannot be challenged at WTO if they are imposed on <strong>grounds of health, safety, environment and deceptive trade practice, or national security<\/strong>. The Centre argued that cheap quality products from other countries pose a health risk for children in India.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the rationale behind issuing quality control orders by the Indian government?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>QCOs are increasingly being used by the government to curb the <strong>dumping of cheap products from China amid the widening trade deficit<\/strong>. It is nearly 40% of the total deficit. India has a total deficit of $87.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>India lags in terms of <strong>international standards<\/strong>. It must ramp up its<strong> focus on quality <\/strong>to make the best of <strong>free trade agreements<\/strong> and take advantage of the <strong>China-plus-one strategy <\/strong>adopted by the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cIndia is well within its right to ensure quality\u201d published in the \u201cmint\u201d on 8th April 2023. Syllabus: GS3- Economy Relevance&#8211; Issue related to trade News&#8211; several WTO members objected to India issuing quality control orders(QCO) for products of mass consumption, such as machinery safety equipment, pressure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-is-well-within-its-right-to-ensure-quality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018India is well within its right to ensure quality\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,11125,1109],"class_list":["post-236897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-mint","tag-wto-reforms","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700796161,"cached_date":1704729708},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}