• Legal requirements for selling merchandise

Dear Sir,

I am a proprietor of a consultancy firm and my client from Italy who is into fashion and retail business world wide wants to have an exhibition cum sale for 3 days in Mumbai so just want to know if my client can directly sell his merchandise here? And if he cannot directly sell, can he sell it through my firm? If yes what are the legal requirements?

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Raj
Asked 9 years ago in Business Law

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1) your client can stock their merchandise with specialist online retailers and marketplaces such as Jabong and Myntra.

2) a number of foreign brands are using this route to sell their products in india .

3) your client can participate in International Fashion Trade fair held in india wherein top international brands exhibit their products associated with fashion industry

4) Exhibitors will carry their samples for display at the trade fair. They can enter their samples in thecountry as items for re-export, when sales are not admitted in the exhibition

Ajay Sethi
Advocate, Mumbai
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7485 Consultations

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1. Your client requires permission to sell such product in India directly unless he participates in a Govt. or Chamber organised Fair wherein such permission does not require any prior permission.

2. You can sell his products in India on payment of requisite Customs Duty.

Devajyoti Barman
Advocate, Kolkata
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484 Consultations

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1. Your client can take part in the exibition and exibit their products,

2. For conducting business in India by selling diretly to the customers, your clients shall have to follow the required formalities like forming a subsidiary comnpany in India or selling through agents,

3. Your client can sell through online sellers like Jabong duly entering into agreemet with them,

4. They can also appoint you, being an Indian Company/Firm, as their agent/franchisee and sell their product in India,

5. Execute an appropriate agreement with your client for the said purpose.

Krishna Kishore Ganguly
Advocate, Kolkata
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726 Consultations

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nothing left to add, completely agree with the experts

Nadeem Qureshi
Advocate, New Delhi
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302 Consultations

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