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New Delhi : Union Commerce & Industry and Railways Minister Piyush Goyal while speaking at the 6th National Standards Conclave on the subject of ‘Standards for Trade Facilitation’ in New Delhi on January 15, 2020, said no imports will be allowed without HSN code into the country.
Goyal further said that henceforth there must be zero tolerance for substandard products and services from industry and consumers. He stated that the Government will support industry in every way to establish standards for Indian goods and services to meet international requirements so that brand India is recognised in the world as a provider of quality products and services. Unless Indian business and industry make standards its calling card, India will not be able to reach the target of a USD 5 trillion economy, said Goyal.
The Government is committed to establishing standards of Indian products and services to world class levels which will enable our exports to be accepted globally due to the quality of goods and services, added the Minister. He said Made in India should carry the commitment of 130 crore people towards quality, sincerity, customer satisfaction and not be second best, according to a PIB release.
Gopal further said that it is an unfortunate reality for India that the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) entered into with other countries has not led to the growth of India’s trade and business because the poor quality of the products and services that get restricted with non-tariff barriers when exported. He further elaborated on this point with the number of Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) in countries like US (8000), Brazil (3879), China (2872), and India with only 439 TBTs. This illustrates the fact as to the manner in which India and rest of the world are looking at the concept of quality in products and services, said the Minister.
He said that the time has come to get out of the mind set of subsiding exports and adopt the mantra of ‘zero defect zero effect’ to ensure that emerging India will be the destination for quality products and services. He said that the need of the hour is to get cracking towards a zero defect policy,that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has articulated a number of times.
Goyal informed that the new Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Act is relooking at all standards for goods and services to balance the interest of consumers with that of the industry which will enable the culture of quality to take root in the country and production or import of substandard products and services will not be tolerated any longer.