Oman Creating E-Commerce Department to Monitor Online Sales
Oman is creating a department to regulate the country’s e-commerce sector and curb sales of counterfeit goods, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council said in an Oct. 8 report. The new agency, called the Electronic Commerce Department, will write regulations to monitor e-commerce websites, provide guidance to commercial websites, help organize “integrated commercial transactions” on open networks and help facilitate “the purchase and sale of goods and services via electronic networks,” the report said.
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The announcement came after the country discovered a shopping website selling counterfeit goods “purporting to be international brands” at below-market prices to more than 60,000 customers, the report said. A company in Oman worked with the website to deliver the goods from a warehouse, which received the items from another country, the HKTDC said. The goods included electronic devices, cosmetics, jewelry, perfumes, bags, books and stationery.