CCI Interim Findings

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has released its interim findings on the ongoing study of the e-commerce sector. CCI in its findings has said that the stakeholders across sectors have identified discounts, commission and algorithm issues as their main concerns.

CCI found: (a) preferential terms and visibility to certain ‘preferential’ sellers, higher search rankings, etc., although the same have been denied by the platforms as they claimed all sellers are independent third-party sellers; (b) platforms playing a dual role raising issues of neutrality; and (c) strict on-board reseller norms to reduce the nuisance of counterfeiting.