Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has urged Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal to hike customs duty on Chinese imports, plug alternate routes which can be used by China for pushing its exports to India and implement mandatory mentioning of country of origin with each product sold on e-portal from September 1, 2020. It has also urged the government to ban Chinese apps that can threaten national security, and debar Huwaei and ZTE Corporation from participation in 5G network roll out in India.

B C Bhartia, President and Praveen Khandelwal, Secretary General said the next four months beginning September are 'purchasing months' and the government needs to increase purchase of Indian goods to support vocal for local and Aatma Nirbhar Bharat call by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. CAIT recommended a logical hike in import duty on the products like gold idols, electric goods including decorative electric bulb series, decorative articles, toys, textiles, home appliances, textiles, electric & electronic gadgets, cameras, solar modules, batteries and cells, inverters, cleaning equipment, furnishing fabric, furniture, aluminum utensils and other aluminum goods, paper & stationery, beauty products, FMCG goods, consumer durable and other related sections of retail trade.