Ministry of Commerce and Industry

29.03.2016

Commercial

Guidelines for foreign direct investment in e-commerce

MANU/INDP/0009/2016

The Ministry of Commerce and Industry released guidelines for foreign direct investment in e-commerce, clarifying the policy contained in ‘Consolidated FDI Policy Circular’ 2015. The guidelines provide definitions for e-commerce and delineate marketplace based e-commerce from inventory based e-commerce.100% investment from foreign sources is permitted in the marketplace model whereas FDI is not permitted in inventory based e-commerce.

Tags : e-commerce fdi marketplace inventory

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