India is planning to impose customs duties on telecom components in a phased manner to discourage imports and promote domestic manufacturing. The Department of Telecommunications is considering an initial 10% import duty from January, increasing to 15% by October next year. The move is part of the government s Phased Manufacturing Programme, which aims to boost local production and value addition in the telecom sector.
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The Centre in August announced the imposition of licensing requirements for the import of laptops and PCs. However, it now rushes to replace previously planned import ‘restrictions’ with import ‘management’ instead.
Beyond laptops, personal computers and servers, the directive could be applied on a large range of finished IT hardware equipment including 5G sensors, which are predominantly being imported from China.