Key Points
The government is likely to offer some concessions in import quotas to electronic hardware manufacturing companies that can step up domestic production under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for information technology (IT) hardware, people with knowledge of the matter have told ET..
The government first imposed import restrictions on laptops, tablets, all-in-one personal computers, ultra-small form factor computers and servers on August 3, 2023...
India has achieved significant scale in manufacturing of mobile phones in the past 10 years and is working to deepen value addition and widen focus to include IT hardware, servers and chips..
"We think, of the 12 sub-assemblies, we will be world leader in three, and a dominant player in around five," the official said.. Mobile phone manufacturing in India in value terms jumped 21-fold in the last 10 years to Rs 4.1 lakh crore in FY24, as government policy measures such as production-linked incentives (PLI) played a critical role in attracting global players to boost local production, as per industry body ICEA...
Local value addition in mobile phone manufacturing, however, stands at 15% at present.. Apple Inc.s iPhone exports from India jumped by a third in the six months through September, underscoring its push to expand manufacturing in the country and reduce dependence on China..
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