{"id":180677,"date":"2021-02-17T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amazon-skirted-regulations-to-expand-reach-in-india-report\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T16:08:07","slug":"amazon-skirted-regulations-to-expand-reach-in-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazon-skirted-regulations-to-expand-reach-in-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amazon skirted regulations to expand reach in India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Amazon skirted regulations to expand reach in India: report<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Amazon formed ties to massive e-commerce merchants and skirted regulations to expand in India \u2014 hurting the small businesses it has publicly pledged to help, a new report says.<\/p>\n

Seven years of internal documents obtained by Reuters spell out how Amazon privileged big businesses as Indian officials tried to protect the country\u2019s brick-and-mortar merchants.<\/p>\n

The records from 2012 to 2019 reportedly detail Amazon\u2019s aggressive attitude toward regulations in India, where the Seattle-based empire is barred from selling products directly to consumers. It can only provide a platform for sales by third-party merchants, who sell most of the goods available on Amazon globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cTest the Boundaries of what is allowed by law,\u201d Amazon officials were advised in a 2014 presentation titled \u201cRisk Analysis,\u201d according to Reuters. The slide also reportedly urged staffers to \u201cEstablish a Strong Dawn raid Process\u201d in case cops or other authorities ever paid them a visit.<\/p>\n

Amazon indeed pushed those boundaries by taking indirect stakes in two \u201cspecial merchants\u201d \u2014 Cloudtail and App<\/a>ario \u2014 that accounted for 35 percent of the platform\u2019s sales in India as of early 2019, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

The companies were set up by joint ventures that Amazon formed with Indian entrepreneurs, and they both got \u201csubsidized fees\u201d and access to Amazon\u2019s special tools for inventory and invoice management, according to the news<\/a> agency.<\/p>\n

Cloudtail was formed first and grew to encompass nearly half of all Amazon sales in India by March 2016, less than two years after it was created, the Wednesday report says. <\/p>\n

Appario was reportedly born in 2017, the year after after Indian officials imposed tougher rules capping a single merchant\u2019s share of sales on an e-commerce platform at 25 percent.<\/p>\n

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These workarounds lend credence to Indian merchants\u2019 criticisms that Amazon gives a handful of large sellers an advantage over small businesses who are struggling to survive, Reuters says.<\/p>\n

Amazon has fought those concerns by pledging to invest $6.5 billion in India, including a $1 billion initiative to bring small businesses online that CEO Jeff Bezos announced on a January 2020 trip<\/a> to the country, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Amazon pushed back on Reuters\u2019 reporting, saying the story was based on \u201cunsubstantiated\u201d or incorrect information that was \u201clikely supplied (maliciously) with the intention of creating sensation and discrediting Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company added that it treats all sellers in a \u201cfair, transparent and non-discriminatory manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the last several years, there have been number of changes in regulations governing the marketplaces and Amazon has, on each occasion taken rapid action to ensure compliance,\u201d an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cThe story therefore seems to have outdated information and does not show any non-compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amazon shares were up about 0.2 percent at $3,275.00 as of 10:32 a.m. Wednesday.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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