Zero Duty: Channel Seeks Clarity

Written by Stanley Mekkattu Glancy


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Absolute Zero An absolute zero duty regime would prove good forrepparttar channel, as many more manufacturers will foray intorepparttar 107439 market. This will in turn enhance quality standards, improve profitability, raise service levels, get additional backend initiatives and increase profitability. But based on past experience Indian government will not allow absolute Zero duty (i.e. nil customs and countervailing duty) and lower VAT. One reason for this is thatrepparttar 107440 government needs to protectrepparttar 107441 local IT Industry by imposing reasonable tariffs. Bhuwania too feels that though basic duties might be brought down to zero, CVDs and other tariffs would remain. Says he, “CVD will remain, as both PCs and color televisions userepparttar 107442 same PCBs (populated circuit boards). The government can’t have separate duty structure forrepparttar 107443 same component.” Adds Pansari, “CVD will continue to be at 16 percent. Sorepparttar 107444 minimum tax liability will be around 15 to 20 percent.”

Emerging Scenario Forrepparttar 107445 distributors and channel partners zero duty brings with it promises of increased business opportunity. But Pansari feels that transaction cost needs to be brought down further. According to him, distributors need to adopt a cautious approach while selecting brands for distribution, asrepparttar 107446 market will be flooded with multiple products and brands. “Quality and not price should berepparttar 107447 deciding factors,” says he. Plain box movers without focus standrepparttar 107448 risk of being wiped out. Distributors need to change delivery systems to reduce transit time and damages. Pansari suggests that distributors should take proactive measures like re-organizing its marketing staff based on regions instead of states, increasing post sales support and tappingrepparttar 107449 retail channel if distributors want to surviverepparttar 107450 onslaught.

Conclusion Atrepparttar 107451 moment,repparttar 107452 distributors role is to provide logistics, support and credit. Even post zero duty its role would remainrepparttar 107453 same. Butrepparttar 107454 difference is that many more manufacturers would enterrepparttar 107455 market. Hence, distributors would have to develop USPs to attract these MNCs. Manufacturers that were not able to make headway inrepparttar 107456 Indian market thanks torepparttar 107457 monopolistic hold of a few will now get a more level playing field. This will improve service levels, as multiple manufacturers will now compete on services, back-end incentives, and absolute profitability. This will open up new opportunities forrepparttar 107458 channel. Whether India emerges as an export hub remains to be seen. Sincerepparttar 107459 privileges given by MNC manufacturers might no longer be available,repparttar 107460 product price would be decided at a global level. Lowering of zero duty will bring in more business and increase affordability. The biggest advantage of zero duty if implemented effectively, will be that India can compete globally as a manufacturing hub, as power and labor cost is much cheaper. But Indian manufacturers definitely need to ramp up its exports. In a truly zero duty environment, growth will be exponential. The industry should now focus on strategies to harness this new phenomenon.

Stanley Mekkattu Glancy is a senior staff writer at 360 Magazine, India's leading IT channel magazine from the IT Nation Group, a new age IT media company. Prior to taking up this assignment he was correspondent cum sub-editor at Express Computer, India's only technology weekly published by the Indian Express group. He has written various articles on 'the business of IT' during the last four years he has been in IT journalism.


On Photorealism

Written by Nashville


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Withrepparttar existence of Photorealism up to these days, renowned artist Bert Monroy introduces “Photorealism with Bert Monroy, volume 2” which will once again take you inside his creative mind and show you how to create ultra-realistic images using Adobe Photoshop. It showcases Monroy's personal methods for creating realistic details to enhance a digital image. From this book, you’ll learn to make fireworks, rusty text, a glazed donut, an antique photo, a speeding bullet, and a lot more. You'll also learn to masterrepparttar 107438 pen tool, layers, alpha channels, and masking by watching and following along with one ofrepparttar 107439 great digital artists of today.

Photorealists typically specialize in a particular subject matter. Very ordinary, as you might think but then, Photorealism will always be a part of our lives. After all, ordinary things and events around us are what make photorealism artists so great and impressive.

This article was created for the sole purpose of propagating information that may be related to catalog printing and other industries to which it may be of interest.

For questions and comments about the Artcile you may contact the Author at info@catalogprintingexperts.com or visit http://www.catalogprintingexperts.com


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