Jasbir, there are so many small and big obstacles. I'm not doing only this business in India. My sister is a CMA in Canada. I started a business for her also in Chandigarh, and I have some connections. You always need connections to start a business in India.
The bureaucrats in India are always looking for fault. They go through your papers, and they want to find a small fault. It's not like a Canadian bureaucrat. Here, everybody is there to help you. Over there, everybody is there to find a fault. If there is a small fault, they'll put your file aside and tell you to come back tomorrow. I learned a lot. Because I am Indian, I was doing business in India before I came to Canada. I had a small business. I'm still running a brick kiln there, and I'm the major supplier for Jindal Steel and Power. The whole distribution centre is with me in part of the whole Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir states. So I am doing that business also.
There are so many.... For example, there is used clothing. Used clothing comes in under ITC code 6309. For the last 20 years, maybe more, this used clothing from North America, from Europe, from wherever it is available, from South Korea has been coming into India under ITC code 6310. It is always going there illegally. When they gave us 15% from the special economic zone, 15% was okay with me. I need only 10% weight-wise. Even 5% is okay. We can export. We can sell in the DTA, the domestic tariff area. We are selling that 6310. It's allowed. We mutilate acrylic sweaters, wool sweaters, cotton sweaters for wipers. Some wipers we ship back to Canada and America from India. That is allowed, but we need only 5% to 10%, which is whole clothing, not mutilated.
The problem is that outside the special economic zone, people are importing under code 6310 illegally. They pay bribes of 30 rupees per kilogram. I would request that the committee suggest a duty of 30 rupees per kilogram on India for garments. Buyers in India are happy to pay that 30 rupees per kilo if it is open.