Hit by the latest e-commerce rules, American majors Walmart and Amazon are planning to pitch the sellers on their Indian platforms against the domestic lobby groups such as the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) and Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), it is learnt.
The newly renamed Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) had last week clarified that there would be no extension to the February 1 deadline for e-commerce firms to comply with the conditions related to the FDI policy in the sector (known as Press Note 2), triggering panic among prominent online firms such as Amazon