🇨🇳🇮🇳 More Indian economic restrictions on the country that shall not be named (China):
Indian govt amends public procurement rules "to enable imposition of restrictions on bidders from countries which share a land border with India" on defence & national security grounds
Indian govt amends public procurement rules "to enable imposition of restrictions on bidders from countries which share a land border with India" on defence & national security grounds
Link to Indian Finance Ministry press release re amendment of public procurement rules imposing restrictions from China (w/o naming China): pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
The links to the annexes in @FinMinIndia press release re public procurement rules amendment aren't working. But the new restrictions do not apply to bidders from countries bordering India to which GoI extends lines of credit or where there are GoI development projects (🇧🇩🇧🇹🇲🇲🇳🇵)
4/ A month ago, the Indian commerce & industry ministry had amended the rules of the Indian govt's online procurement platform to require country of origin to be listed for all products pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
[also hindustantimes.com/india-news/ind…]
[also hindustantimes.com/india-news/ind…]
5/ For context, worth reading the late Noor Mohammad's piece re Indian government procurement & the China angle
thewire.in/economy/a-chin…
thewire.in/economy/a-chin…
6/ Also read this blunt July 2013 speech by then amb. to 🇨🇳 @DrSJaishankar re the imbalance in 🇨🇳🇮🇳 economic ties: "Those who question if we are competitive in China should note how local procurement conditions have affected, for example, the import of gasifiers from India..."
