India Busts $1 Billion Hair Smuggling Racket; China Tops List of Buyers | Vantage with Palki Sharma
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- India Busts $1 Billion Hair Smuggling Racket; China Tops List of Buyers | Vantage with Palki Sharma
India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) has exposed a smuggling operation linked to human hair. Reports suggest that the ED is probing a case of human hair being illegally smuggled through India's borders to countries like China, Myanmar and Bangladesh. While India's investigative agencies probe the matter, it prompts a crucial question: how big is the black market for Indian human hair? Palki Sharma brings you decodes.
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So they hate Indian skin color but love Indian hair?
No one hate you, its all in your head.
Just for head.... 😂
@@innocentmushi3036 😂whole south east asia except poor one ,they hate every south asian and african and south korea and taiwan is more recist than hitlars hate toward jews 😂
@@innocentmushi3036 In Which world u live . East asian hate Indian skin color
They don’t hate India no that’s … atleast the toilets will be cleaner unclogged if hair lol
Here in Africa, Indian hair is loved but guess what 😮 ! It doesn't come from India but China. What India should do is just help people make money out of it. It's a hotcake here not only in China.
Yes, you self-hating Africans hate your hair and skin color.
You people look good hair or no hair 🙏
Synthetic is more affordable and most popular but then after Brazillian hair is more popular than Indian hair in Africa/other countries but if any one has a problem with reselling their hair,they should keep it or destroy it or discard it well after a hair cut not whine about it
In India women are crazy about lightening creams,in the west,alotbof women do plastic surgery,women all over the world spend a fortune for looks and that will not stop any time soon
Beauty industry cashes in on the women desires and that's how business works
@@ivanbata1370 haha yeah
@@ivanbata1370 yeah you are right
Not only China, here in Indonesia, I have friend that import hair from India to produce hair accessories and wig.
Because not many country can supply Long Hair with large quantity.
Indian entrepreneurs should take a note and start making wigs at home it’s a great revenue stream!!
Ikr?!
But in India very few people bold so no demand and no business
But we can export those wigs to other countries to develop our secondary sector market@@ketikteks
@@ketikteksnishhair shark tank
The whole issue is not hair smuggling, it was unwanted stuff to begin with. However when someone found a use for them , suddenly the Indian authorities want to place a tax on them being exported out. If you make wigs in India for export. Greedy people will still want to tax you (maybe a larger amount because it is finished product) no matter what because they can't bear to see others make money!
India can make lots of money from this industry. Everyone here in USA want good hair wigs and they often compliments my natural Indian hair.
EVERYONE?
you mean more than 300 million Americans?
lol
@@Reinhardt57 everyone I know- family , friends, colleagues, people at salon. I am not exaggerating since you see to think so. believe if you want to I don't care.
India is the top country that sells human skeleton 😅😅😅😅😅😅
China makes wigs from this hair and exports it world over for many times the value of hair. Even though most of the hair comes from India, the wig making industry here is highly unorganized. An area where govt should support and develop the sector
We are bhedbakris. We can't even do simple wig making from raw hairs and that too with 10x returns. We deserve to be looted, just like Manchester cloth, please colonise us. We are bhedbakris.
I bet they do a good job 👍🏼 they know where to source the quality hair from too 😅
@@Sunny_Son21 They can have the hair In between my legs.
Indians are not known for their manufacturing prowess
There are a very few emerging companies in this market. Seen one in Shark Tank
My hair was sold by my barber for 2 times than what I paid him for cutting. So unfair
haha smart barber
why we pay for hair cutting ??
It's not barbers it's form temples. Especially South India where women shave their hair for some mannat Or religious reason..
LOL...Finally, you guys got around to this. What is Tirupati famous for??? nah not the temple, it's the hair...
Next time when they cut your hair, you should carry you cut hair home . Then throw it on the trash at home 😅
'Baal baal bach gaya' - took a new meaning! 🤣
good one bro
They can not buy eyes or nose
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏
Abdul 💀 is here
😂😂
In Rajasthan villages, villagers are paid 1000 rupees per kg of hair by agents who go collecting hair door to door. The people do not throw away hair but everyday after sweeping floors, keep them in a bag hung away in a corner of the house.
In Andhra Pradesh 100gms is 1000/- I'm not exaggerating
It's ₹2000 per kg now in kota, Rajasthan
I've not seen it in Haryana. But, isn't it cool to do so ? This way, we can even give wigs for cancer patients. ☺️
Even in Maharashtra's villages.
We get ₹10000/kg
*Let's be clear, Indians have the BEST hair on the planet, it's that simple!*
I disagree. Japanese people have really good hair especially the women.
Credit goes to coconut oil 😀😀😀
@@deezeed2817 nope
Your hair needs industrial treatment to get rid of the rancid coconut oil, BO and curry smell. Have you been in an enclosed train full of Indians? Can hardly breathe.
@@deezeed2817nah
Hair Smuggling is not that thing I want to hear in my life 😂😂
but you did 😂
@@arzoahmadi5821afghans need some women rights😢
@@ProLab. read what the Brazilian woman who got gang graped by Hindus Indian said about India and Afghanistan. Lolll
It's better than drug smuggling
Easy to answer. Indians are beautiful and have beautifull hair.
They r
Everyone in India seems to have healthy,good hair.the rest of us dont.
Coconut oil😂
Sarso (Mustard Oil) for some hours, then some soapnut water to wash hair. With buttermilk as conditioner after washing hair with soapnut (Reetha) water.
The curses are switching back to all psalms 83 Confederates APTTMHGY acknowledge Mother Wisdom 😂.
@understanding.everything
Yes indeed,.. 😂 was just about to post likewise.
Indian hair smells like curry powder. I bet Palki Shawarma smells like curry powder too
Growing long hair by women is an age old tradition in Indian subcontinent.
In most parts of the world. Its just that hindus and buddhist monks donate their hair at temples and monestaries. Which is the largest source of hair supply globally
Many may not be aware that Chinese smuggle hair from India and sell most of those wigs back to Indians at double or 4 times the price.
Not to Indians lol but to Africa and america
Why would they buy wigs when they are the ones giving their hair , have some common sense 😅
@@classicaleconomist1729😂
😂😂😂
@@classicaleconomist1729 do you think bald people are not present in india
"Hair raising issue"...good one, Palki!!😂😂😂
LOL...Finally, you guys got around to this. What is Tirupati famous for??? nah not the temple, it's the hair...
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Our hair is thick and wavy and black but when sunlight is put it is dark brown
That's with every natural black hair.
@@dark_knight439
No, not with every black hair many look black and shiny even in sunlight.
@@SarojSingh-nq5ql Yeah those must be because of hair dye.
@@dark_knight439
No, i have naturally seen such dark hairs, and instead of brown darkest shade of black hair gives little bit shade of blue in sunlight.
I guess u are from North,
even hairs in North eastern region looks black in sunlight too.
Right, but it looks cool isn't it? Brown silky thick hair 😚.
India should protect this valuable natural resources. Humans have always used animal fur, pelts and hair since the stone age.
Okay, now I will stop going to the barber shop!
Come on, India, we can do it! 😂
The difference btn China and India is that Chinese see an opportunity at took it, while Indian see opportunity and asked themselves if that opportunity will also benefit China, and if it benefits China they are ready to sacrifice it.
That's why China GDP is 5 times that of India. And Indian per capital GDP is the lowest in G20, actually it equals to that of Congo DRC which has been in civil wars since 1990's 😂
@@innocentmushi3036 Who gave you this bullshit piece of info of G20 can you please give the specific source.Don`t spread fake news.
It shows how dumb and silly crynese is !!! 😂😂😂@@innocentmushi3036
@@innocentmushi3036
China PC gdp (ppp) - 12556 usd
India PC gdp (ppp) - 7112 usd
Congo PC gdp (ppp) - 1132 usd
🤡🤣
@@innocentmushi3036 Business and smuggling are two different terms, my brother! Stop humiliating yourself.
Definitely a hair raising issue considering its china buying.
INDIA SHOULD PREVENT THIS.
India should produce various wigs indigenously out of Indian Hair and export it to various countries to gain more foreign exchanges.
Cracking down of smuggling is very crucial step in this regard. Kudos. Jai Hind. 🫡
Chinese entrepreneurs are always one step ahead when making money anywhere anytime anyplace
Despite hatred between the two, one has a superiority complex issue and the other is tolerant.
Don’t think there is hatred. We don’t hate Chinese people, l don’t know about them, but their government is totally different matter 😓
@@DoctorJaneDoe I am witnessing this in Africa, the two people don't mix or like to work together in industries unless there is no option.
@@patrickkasongo7284 having a totally different culture, language and food habits could be a cause. And both not making an effort to learn. You see people openly scream that they hate Pakistan but you put them together outside of India and they stick together like family (because same culture and they understand each other’s language). Maybe you are right and something like that is going on, l personally feel, Indians reflect the energy given to them.
Yes Indians and Pakistanis and even Indians and Latinos get along pretty well. Same with Indians and South East Asians. But Chinese culture is too different especially the food habits and materialism@@DoctorJaneDoe
"Hairy Situation" 😂😂😂
'hair raising issue" ..Palki never disappoint🤣
we also know that black african women around the world are the number 1 clients.
And white women who have blow dried their hair to baldness….
Hai man they were talking about Chinese 😂😂😂😂this time
sorry😂
The Chinese and Koreans control the sale of hair to Black African women.
@@MotsoKbut we black Africans wear them too, to ashamed of who they are, they want to look European or Asian. What a tragedy.
China would be like :
"Sab kahe mujhe shaitan ka saala ... Bala Bala Bala Bala !
Looto looto looto looto japta hoon mala ... Bala Bala Bala Bala ! " 😁
I’m gonna help everyone out! The Chinese are making profit off of the Indian hair, by reselling it to the United States. Now who in USA is the biggest consumer of hair products, wigs etc?
😱🤬😱🤬🤬😱 Shocking violation. Need immediate proactive action.
My mother had always collected her hairs and sold it after a bunch is collected
Palki says your mother is a smuggler
₹6000/Kg
He said she collected her hair ,she didn't illegally export, but china smuggled it😂 @@thetruth3322
That system is still now in my area..we sell it to the feriwala and in return he gives money or sm fancy items
My mom does the same she gets utensils and tubs from that
Because indian women widely known for thick black shiny long hair.
Indian has one of the best hair in the world..the coconut oil hair is the toughest.
Here in India we have a hairy situation, and then there's the Chinese 😅😂🤣🤣
Hair is a good source of dna
Cutting hair had no DNA...lol.. except u pull it (the root of hair had DNA from inner skin)😅
@@nikolas_5629Side effect of watching too much C.I.D.
@@nikolas_5629Successful nuclear DNA profiling of rootless hair shafts: a novel approach
Kelly S Grisedale et al. Int J Legal Med. 2018 Jan.
@@nikolas_5629Successful nuclear DNA profiling of rootless hair shafts: a novel approach
Kelly S Grisedale et al. Int J Legal Med. 2018 Jan.
They take only strands pulled out , not cut ones@@nikolas_5629
Few years back i had a hair cut done in enrich salon bangalore, despite telling the lady to maintain my hair length, she chopped full length in one go and kept it aside. Like she was saving it. Ofcourse i called the main office and created a scene. They refunded my amount and promised that they would "safely dispose
Hair". They also told me that they fire the receptionist (but not the one who cut my hair). Wondering how long this hair smuggling was happening.
LOL...Finally, you guys got around to this. What is Tirupati famous for??? nah not the temple, it's the hair...
We need to change this and crack down on hair smuggling and hair export. Invite those wig-making companies so India can supply finished products, not raw materials.
Give more jobs to our people
Not only in China but in Africa also !! Indian hair are in big demand .
What a day is come in era, People are smuggling or hoarding a bundle of cuted hair from barber shop and salon to export other countries. Let me remind a moment to my late grandmother to collect her aging and dying hair to sell their hair from street hawkers and they return them from snacks, toys and etables for their grandchildren.
Now they don't smell curry from hairs?
🐶
Dog
Cockroach
They've gone mad by eating everything 🐍🦇.
@@user-hq8wm8giyujcg I was not targeting Indians....i was targeting Chinese here ....last year thir media told iPhone's smell like curry when India starts manufacturing iPhone's.
Natural Indian Hair is sold in the US and used for hair extensions especially by African American women
Chris Rock made a documentary on this so I think Indian hair is popular in us
@francispinto8721
Natural Indian hair is sold in Europe and United states for hair extensions especially by European Americans too.
Not just Chinese but black American and Africans loves those hair!
This scandal is having Deep roots in villages too.. I have seen man collecting hairs in exchange of any household item or money..even openly we can sell hairs in big cities..but never knew where it all goes
It's a flaw at India's part because if we can make quality products and have an easy export system we will be selling it(wig) directly.
So someone in China might be wearing my hair
One thing about China. Their are some hustlers.
Where are those ccp bots? Will they be able to accept that their country is taking hair from india? 🤣Maybe one of them is wearing an indian hair wig 😂😂😂😂
They are busy defending xi ‘s human rights record 😂
I am Indian Hindu born and brought up in India for 35 years. I am not CCP Robo. You are just making fun of hair but India is entirely dependant on Chinese even for raw materials needed by Pharma industry. Find how much the trade deficit is between India and China and also find out which country has Trade surplus with the other.
@@KathyKaulk Can we say the same to Modi!?
We all remember once US stopped him from traveling to US due to human rights abuse and terrorism charges.
@@innocentmushi3036 Yeah the key word here is "once". He was proven innocent on that case.
@@kamandalamjalam1541 And what about it? The entire point of my comment is to highlight the way they speak about india and now their country can't get enough of indian hair.
Unlike them, I am not the one being mis lead by media because whatever you have said has already been covered on this channel. No one is unaware of the trade deficit. But their own media won't say a word of anything bad in their country. So I really wonder who needs a reminder then 🙂
Yes, many Chinese men and women seem to have rather sparse hair as they age. Alopecia may be some mild form of lupus, which is a genetically inherited disease. Lupus is called the "disease with a 1000 faces". Indian hair wigs are popular in Africa too.
@MariAmmaSar
Indian hair wigs are also popular in Europe and in the United states too.
Everyone LOVES BLACK , until It comes to SKIN 😢
Many east Asians like black dress and black hair,but skin colour 😁
Black is very very rare skin colour ...you can just say BROWN skin colour
@@karmyoginiArts rare?😁
Thats why our mothers say dont use products on hair
Hair is a good source of DNA 🧬
I was also thinking that
Yeah so if someone from China wears a wig made from my hair and commits a crime, and officials find my hair at the scene of the crime, will they be able to track me down?
Ny african american friends always tells me give me this indian hair.
Bizarre !!
For everyone asking why they didn’t mention Africa, it’s because they aren’t stealing the hair but buying it lol
This is incredible because most Indians about 60-70% indians are suffering from hairfall. We should require these hair more
I know, they want to find DNA of Bodhi Dharman😂😂😂
This is big industry. Should be legalized and add it to the export list. We've no problem😂
So many dollars worth of hair is lying in my trash bin right now 😂
Other than that human hair is also a rich source of nitric acid which is rare fertiliser and India has been exporting to UAE in huge quantities. Good for India
You mean the barber should pay us for the haircut? 🤨
*Black* *thick* *straight* *hair* with *natural* *curls* - Indian hair is perfect .
Yes, Indian hair looks like puberty hair
I will be studying this well
Do my fellow Indians remember the rumoured kesh-katwa few years ago? Where women's hair used to disappear? 😂 Now I believe it.
The mere idea of using the hair of others, who are not even immediate family members, on one's head is so so so revolting.
Its fascinating to listen such news.
My mother sold her fallen hairs many times, I never knew it was a racket 😂😂
😁 international racket system
Just thinking how much money I can make if I wasn't a bald Indian.
From my observations threw out the years men and woman from India have the best hair, thick pitch black , envious
Government should help our Hair industry boom... 1 billion dollar busted.. but what about the real value.. this will help small scale workers a lot.. Create employment opportunities & last of them all cutting our enemies of our valuable Hair asset..
May find this laughable but if government supports our workers then it can become a billion dollar business
this is a billion USD industry annually. i have a good knowledge of this commerce through a first hand experience.
Do Indian give free hair? We should be Thankful to China for buying.
Indians got good hairs.
This is brilliant.
Tell them to put amla oil on hair everything will be fine
Chinese have ancient medicine but it was not effective.
Yes, totally correct, I am from Manipur, every rural area hair cut comes, after cut and gives money, and sell through Myanmar, to reach China easily, simply giving it is for drama, film star and other reason.
For the Chinese, when you fucking eat anything that moves, hair loss should be your last of the worry.
但是，印度人除外。
No, they only eat lapdogs for breakfast.
@@倭鬼是从十八层地狱爬what about bats😂
Thats not true, Just like India having toilets.
Chinese love to eat, and you need money to buy food.
So buying raw material from India and then sell it 200x to US and EU is logical.
India love to eat, but too lazy (or dumb) to earn money.
No wonder why after looking your beautiful hair 😊😊
rizzler
but yeah i thought the same, her hair does seem to be nice
Its the thickness and firm of hair stronger❤❤❤❤
Now govt should start apolicy where customer should get flat 50% discount at salons. Salons/parlours are earning both way afterall and should share it with the customer. Why should customer always have to only. A section of the society is only paying....paying fees, rents, taxes, premiums, installments.....😊
India really is the Golden Bird of the world
In my entire life, I never imagined that hair could be worth a Billion dollars.
loved the word "untangle" in the end for this context 3:49
I demand compensation from the CCP for my hair. I mean, I grew it myself.
Look at Palki's long shiny hairs, you will understand that.😂😂😂😂
🙄 Because Indian women leave their hair long. So you can buy more. How many Indian women do you know that have short hair?
Thts y i cut my hair myself at home 😂😂😂
Sirf Baal hi bach gaye hain... Wo bhi chinese le rahein hain...
Nigerian here. China doesn't use them. They are processed and sold to Africa, Europe and America.
So they can do black magic on us using our hair. Tantra-mantra, Vashikaran 😂😂😂
In Northern India too there's religious tradition of "mundan" where ppl including girls shave their head atleast once in lifetime & most time its done during teenage still as teen girls The hair are so big, lustrous, healthy
Chinese companies like hair vivi are selling 1 human hair wig from 400- 1000$ .
Bottom line - time to start charging our stylists!
I mad3 it mys3lf
Why chainese medicine no longer working🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
It never worked in the first place
Lets be clear its not barbers who are supplying hair.
Those hair cant be used to make wigs because they are small.
Its the south indian temples where women shave their hair that are the source of long hair for wigs. Chinese might even be exporting wigs to US and Europe.
Isn't the smell of curry in hair is concerning now for them? Like the Iphone 15
~Darling~ closing up😂
The word play in this video.🎉😂
India even supplies hair raw material instead of clipping it in wigs and selling finished product, pathetic!
Thanks to Indian Nani’s and moms and our culture of Ayurved that we have fantastic growing hair. I see everyone with a western lifestyle getting western hair.
In villages they purchase hair on very very cheap price. I saw this 3 years ago when I went to my Nanighar 😂 But I'm just feeling disgusting that how can you use hair of others? No matter it is cleaned and dyed 1000 times
Our secret is coconut oil
It's not only the Hair, they want everything India, including the entire country.