According to foreign media reports, the Indian authorities said Thursday that it plans to raise the tariff on imported handsets from 15% to 20% from April 1 to protect the local manufacturing industry.
It is reported that this is the second time in more than a month in India to increase tariffs on mobile phones .In December last year, India has just announced the tariffs on mobile phones from 10% to 20% Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also said it plans to increase the use of mobile phones and television parts Tariffs on spare parts and accessories, he said: 'This measure will promote the creation of more jobs in this country.'
As the Indian government frequently raised its import tariffs, it attracted opposition from all governments, and India's financial media BusinessLine reported that after India announced tariffs on mobile phones and base station equipment last year, it sued many countries and regions around the world, India is accused of violating the WTO's Information Technology Agreement.
Allegations against India include Japan, the European Union, Canada, the United States, Taiwan, Norway, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, and Australia.
A trade expert in Delhi, India, said that instead of lifting tariffs, India this time instead increased tariffs and will make other World Trade Organization members angry that India will face WTO trade disputes.
However, accusing India of appeals appearing to seem indifferent, they claim that the main purpose is to encourage the development of Indian manufacturing industry for the tariff increase insiders said the victims not only Apple, more importantly, will damage the interests of Chinese manufacturers.
Data show that China's handset manufacturers in India's smart phone market, the total share of more than 50%, while only two years ago, Micromax, Karbonn Mobiles and other Indian local manufacturers also accounted for more than 54% of the share.
Insiders said that the Indian government is nothing more than trying to make the smart phone manufacturing industry shift to India, and a few years ago in India layout factories in China less affected.
According to reports, vivo in India has a largest factory overseas, with more than 1,000 employees, a monthly output of 1 million units of the factory, has been fully loaded with production. OPPO almost at the same time vivo plant in India, the site Noida, Production capacity is larger, producing 1.6 million cell phones a month. Currently simple assembly, more complex production processes will be completed.
The new Jin Lixin plant will be built in Haryana, northern India in September 2016. With an area of 50 acres and a planned annual capacity of 30 million handsets, Jinli will invest 5 billion rupees (about 495 million yuan) Factory plans to put into operation within 2 years.
Millet is currently not building its own factory in India. Earlier it was reported that at present, mainly in Foxconn in India, Foxconn re-build two manufacturing plants in India, while the latest data show that millet in the fourth quarter of 2017 shipments in the Indian market Reaching 8.2 million with a market share of 27%, surpassing Samsung's 7.3 million shipments and becoming number one in India, which will also accelerate the pace of self-built millet factories.
According to set micro-network understanding, millet planning this year to guide suppliers to visit India to set up factories.