Amazon halts sales of Indian dwindle doormats

India angrily told Amazon that a dwindle could not be used as a doormat, and Amazon fast yanked them.

The doormats, sole by a third-party businessman on a Canadian website Amazon.ca, violate India’s Flag Code — and a country’s apportion of outmost affairs, Sushma Swaraj, finished it transparent in a array of Twitter posts Wednesday that India won’t endure injustice of a flag.

“Amazon contingency proposal umbrella apology. They contingency repel all products scornful a inhabitant dwindle immediately,” Swaraj wrote. “If this is not finished forthwith, we will not extend Indian Visa to any Amazon official. We will also revoke a Visas released earlier.”

Amazon reliable Wednesday that a products are no longer on a site. The association declined serve comment.

India’s Flag Code has despotic manners controlling how a inhabitant pitch is used and displayed. The manners state that a flag, mostly called a Tricolour, should never hold a ground.

They also demarcate a copy of a flag’s pattern on any wardrobe or furniture. Using it as a doormat would so violate mixed rules.

Many Indian users were outraged, and posted indignant comments on a flag-doormat’s product page before it was taken down. The product also had scarcely 50 one-star ratings.

“You can't insult a inhabitant dwindle of India by creation a doormat of it,” one user said.

India isn’t a usually nation whose dwindle facilities on a doormat sole on Amazon — several others, including a U.S., U.K. and Mexico are also available.

Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) has committed to large investments in India. In Jun final year, a association announced skeleton to siphon $3 billion into a India operations, on tip of a $2 billion investment a association finished there in 2014.

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