"Xiaomi, Samsung, Google, and Apple manufacture smartphones there both for the domestic market and for the entire world. In our opinion, this is just one of the supply channels through which these aforementioned companies bring their products to our country. Smartphones from Indian manufacturers (e.g. Micromax) have features comparable to those from 2014, and are unable to compete with modern models, so it is unlikely that they are specifically importing these," EvApps project manager Rodion Trufanov said to media.
"Parallel import is what it is. And, in general, they're bringing in what's in demand here. New Indian brands, exist in India, but they usually lack localisation and the Chinese don't like the prices. .... Xiaomi is bringing in a lot from the Indian market because they have a factory there, thus the prices in India are lower than what you can get in China. So that's why they are in demand. And as a rule, these are not even parallel imports, but frequently "grey imports". Although there are parallel imports too, nonetheless," he summed up.