Karnataka signs MoU with Amazon to help MSMEs

On Thursday, an MoU was signed between Amazon India with the Department of Industries & Commerce, Government of Karnataka to ease the operation of e-business exports from the State.

Training and on-boarding facilities will be provided by Amazon to Karnataka's MSMEs on Amazon Global Selling, its exports programme, enabling them to sell their Made in India products to the customers throughout the global market in more than 200 countries, under the MoU.

As a part of this MoU, Amazon will implement training, webinars and on-boarding workshops for exporters from key MSME clusters like Ballari, Mysuru and Channapatna. The workshops will focus on sharing knowledge and imparting training to MSMEs about B2C e-commerce exports and selling globally through Amazon’s 17 international marketplaces to over 300 million customers worldwide.

Jagadish Shettar, Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industries said: “Karnataka has vibrant automobile, agro, aerospace, textile and garment, biotech, and toys and handicraft sectors, which are held together by lakhs of MSMEs. Our partnership with Amazon India will encourage our MSMEs to leverage Amazon’s global presence and showcase their products to customers across the world.”