This report explores how eBay provides a vibrant digital marketplace that is a level playing field enabling cross border trade by small businesses across India. Small online businesses across India are using the eBay marketplace to successfully sell to consumers in hundreds of export markets each year, contributing to national and state efforts to foster balanced and inclusive growth through exports. The report also provides insights into the phenomenon of new enterprise creation and establishment in India, a key indicator of business and economic dynamism, and highlights some state-level export development priorities that eBay-enabled small business sellers are helping to achieve.
The “circular economy” is an economic system that aims to keep products and materials in use for longer, increasing the lifespan of things that are manufactured, and reducing waste. Recommerce is one action within the full circular economy and is the process of selling (or re-selling) pre-owned goods, which helps extend the life of a product. This report focuses on how eBay helps expand circular consumption through product reuse, refurbishment, repair, and related strategies to extend the useful life of consumer goods.