#BoycottChina ka Maal? Ae Deal Hai Mushkil

Will you #BoycottChina if you are asked to do away with these items?

Since we are virtually covered in ‘Made in China’ goods, how easy it’d be to boycott China? (Photo: The Quint)

3,69,565 crores. That’s the amount India paid to China last year, for all the products we brought in. That includes products from our daily needs to heavy equipments and power machinery. Recently, there’s an increased clamour to ban China manufactured goods in ‘national interest’, of course.

But how easy or difficult would it be to do so in reality? Here’s a lowdown of how we are virtually, a country ‘Made in China’.

(Photo: The Quint)

Your latest smartphone? The same device you’re typing anti-China messages on? Made in China.

(Photo: The Quint)

China is present in virtually every part of the country, and their products are often preferred for lower costs. Also, with modern trade agreements, it is very difficult to put a blanket ban on imports from them.

If you still plan to #BoycottChina, do let us know your reason in the comments below. And if you think we make sense, share this story, and let better sense prevail.