Eye FDI, just macro tweaks won't doIndia must go beyond macro tweaks to boost FDI, addressing governance, infrastructure, and global shifts. Despite steady inflows, profit ou...
26 Apr, 2026, 11.20 PM IST
Smartphones emerge as India's export champions in FY26India's electronics exports saw a significant 24% rise in the last fiscal year. Smartphones led this growth, with exports climbing nearly 2...
23 Apr, 2026, 11.33 AM IST
As smartphone exports skyrocket, some fly under radarIndia's smartphone export boom, hitting ₹2 lakh cr in FY25, faces scrutiny due to a growing parallel export market. An estimated ₹9,000-10,...
20 Apr, 2025, 05.46 PM IST
Tariff protection can help only that longGlobal handset manufacturers began to seek supply chain resilience after China's shutdown over the pandemic, and India became an obvious ch...
18 Apr, 2023, 11.09 PM IST
Apple vendors to juice up make in IndiaThis workaround is expected to deliver because Chinese handset vendors have built global scale in manufacturing that will help medium-sized...
20 Jan, 2023, 12.14 AM IST
Exports need a hand from handsets PLISamsung and contract manufacturers for Apple are pushing the surge in exports, having committed to steep increases in production and outbou...
17 Oct, 2022, 12.01 AM IST
Handset makers, government differ over export sops under RodTEPThe Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme (MEIS), which offered 2-4% of free-on-board export value as duty credit scrips to handset and comp...
08 Jan, 2021, 09.16 PM IST
Smartphone makers miffed over delay in roll out of production-linked incentive schemeOfficials blame the delay on a confusion over whether each application which would attract incentives over Rs 1,000 crore needs cabinet app...
01 Oct, 2020, 02.51 PM IST
Cap on exports incentive by govt to hurt handset, component exports, says industryThe government on Tuesday notified that benefits to each exporter under the Merchandise Exports Incentive Scheme (MEIS) for the September-D...
03 Sep, 2020, 04.33 PM IST
Handset industry wants 4% incentive under MEIS to be reinstatedWith the expiry of additional ad-hoc incentive for January-March, the benefit for mobile phone makers under the Merchandise Export Incentiv...
17 Apr, 2020, 08.37 PM IST
Fresh row over Rs 41k crore sops for electronic makersThe Department of Revenue and the handset industry, backed by the IT ministry, are at odds over the implementation of the much-touted Rs 41...
03 Apr, 2020, 07.23 AM IST
Handset makers want a further extension of additional export duty incentiveThe growth in 2018-19 in mobile phones export was 850% or Rs 1,300 crore to reach Rs 11,300 crore. “Till December, exports are Rs 19,500 cr...
30 Jan, 2020, 03.47 PM IST
Handsets companies say Exports Sop must for investmentHandset brands and third-party manufacturers are putting investments and hiring plans on hold following a sudden reduction in duty credit s...
08 Jan, 2020, 08.33 AM IST
MeitY urges Finmin to bring back 4% exports sops on smartphonesMeity has warned that unless govt restores sops for phone exports, the $3 bn industry would collapse.
14 Dec, 2019, 11.51 AM IST
Reduction of handset export incentives to 2 per cent will lead to massive job losses: ICEAICEA said discussions have been going around between the industry and the government for the past three months to replace the Merchandise E...
12 Dec, 2019, 09.49 PM IST
Additional 2% export benefits to end Dec 31; Government yet to give roadmap for garments, madeupsThe additional 2% benefits under MEIS were announced in August to help exporters who had claimed that delayed Goods and Services Tax (GST) ...
10 Dec, 2019, 09.38 AM IST
Vote on Account 2014: Tax, custom duty cut and incentives to promote R&D and domestic manufacturing in telecomThe Indian mobile handset market is one of the largest and amongst the fastest growing in the world with about 250 million handsets being s...
16 Feb, 2014, 02.35 PM IST