The traders and importers who had placed their orders in November and December last year are yet to receive a chunk of their consignments. The unprecedented delay in delivery is due to the shutting down of Chinese borders in January and February, followed by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown in India which lasted for about two months beginning March 25.

However, Khandelwal said that traders have not placed fresh orders with China for these items since March.

India’s imports from China during the April- August period of the current financial year stood at $21.58 billion. This is as 27.63 percent drop compared to the previous year.

India’s decision to reduce imports from China, especially cheap electronic and electrical items including mobile phones, home appliances, gifts and toys- will be a big blow to China. India has initiated talks with Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea besides boosting its own production through Atma Nirbhar.

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The Chinese envoy said that there is a long history of peaceful co-existence between China and India and portray a friendly neighbour for thousands of years and that it is a short-sighted action to portray a friendly neighbour in a bad light due to temporary differences and difficulties.

“Our economic and trade exchanges should be positive cycle of mutual accomplishment. It should not become a knockout nor a zero-sum game deliberately suppressing others. We should recognize mutually beneficial and win-win nature and jointly create open, fair, just business environment,” Sun said in what could be perceived as a reaction to India’s ban on Chinese apps following the June 15 violent face-off in Galwan Valley along the LAC.

Mr Sun said that Beijing advocates sovereignty and is against aggression or expansion.
“China has firmly safeguarded its national sovereignty, security and development interests. We have never been aggressive and pursued our own development at the expense of other countries,” he said.

Weidong said, “At this critical moment, we should handle relations cautiously, calmly and rationally, conform to international trend, always look forward and move forward, resolutely avoid the whirlpool of suspicion and confrontation.”

Though, what happened in Eastern Ladakh was exactly opposite to what the envoy has expressed, where 20 Indian soldiers were killed in a deadly clash.

The envoy also said that the border troops have disengaged in most localities. However India clarified that there has been some progress made, but the disengagement process has not been completed yet.

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