CAIT campaign to boycott Chinese goods.
                     CAIT CAMPAIGN TO 
BOYCOTT CHINESE GOODS
INTRODUCTION
• The campaign call by the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), 
which claims to represent 7 crore traders and 40,000 trade 
associations, comes amid border tensions between India and China.
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ALL ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
• CAIT will not motivate traders to not sell Chinese goods
• Urge Indian consumers to buy indigenous products in place of 
Chinese goods
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BOYCOTTING CHINESE PRODUCTS
• The traders' body has been campaigning for boycotting Chinese 
products on the back of government's push for 'Make in India' 
programme.
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RESULT OF THE INITIATIVES
• As a result of these initiatives, imports from China have dropped 
from USD 76 billion in 2017-18 to USD 70 billion at present. 
• This USD 6 billion import decline tells the true story of the use of 
indigenous goods and changing consumer sentiments,
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FUTURE PLANS
• CAIT is aiming for a reduction in India's imports of Chinese goods 
by about USD 13 billion by 2021. 
• It has also prepared a list of  3,000 products imported from China for 
which Indian substitutes are available.
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FINANCIAL LOAD
• Reasoning behind the low footfalls at markets
• Retail business suffered a loss of 9 lakh crore
• CAIT pointed out that the 'financial load on traders will certainly be 
going to kill the retail trade of the country'. 
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PRODUCTS PREPARED BY CAIT 
• FMCG
• Consumer goods
• Toys
• Festive goods
• Fabrics
• Textiles
• Stationery
• Paper
• Electrical and electronics 
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SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN
• CAIT has said it will also run a major campaign across the country 
through social media to connect more people to this campaign.
• Committee to run the nationwide campaign was made with Brij 
Mohan Agarwal as convenor, and Sumit Agrawal as co-convenors. 
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THANK YOU
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