"Rather than feeling that India is a place where I should be making mobile phones, its more like this is the place I need to(assemble) phones because there is lower duty if I import components and assemble here," a senior executive with a Chinese smartphone maker said.Oppo said at the time it regretted the incident.According to tech research firm Counterpoint, while phones are assembled domestically because of taxes on imported phones, locally made content in those phones is usually restricted to headphones and chargers - about 5 percent of a devices cost.PHASED PROGRAMMEThe government says it has a phased programme to manufacture phones, aiming to step up value added locally every year.
They also cited high-profile tax disputes between India and foreign companies such as Nokia. "No one seems to be investing in skilled labour that will build the phones.But for smartphone makers used to Chinas predictability, India may need to do more, executives warn.Last week, India rattled investors after publicly musing about possible changes in a $2. He declined to be named for fear of harming business.While contract manufacturers such as iPhone-maker Foxconn Technology Co and Flextronics Corp have set up base in India, one of the worlds fastest-growing smartphone markets, almost none of the higher value chip sets, cameras and other high-end components are made domestically. "A lot of investors have shown very significant interest in this area.A third senior source at a Chinese smartphone maker in India said some Chinese players were rattled by labour unrest, including suspended operations at a facility belonging to smartphone maker Oppo earlier this year, after a foreign employee was reported to have torn a picture of the Indian flag.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has championed a manufacturing drive, under the slogan "Make in India", to boost the sluggish economy and create millions of jobs.".Indias nationwide sales tax (GST), which kicked in this year to replace a string of different levies, is also fraught with its own challenges, such as a lengthy tax-refund process that delays payments to suppliers, the source added.
Three years on, India has managed only to assemble phones from imported components.Plans for Taiwan-based Foxconn to build an electronics plant in Maharashtra, which local officials said in 2015 could employ some 50,000 people, have gone quiet.New Delhi: Indias ambitions to become a smartphone-making powerhouse are foundering over a lack of skilled labour and part suppliers along with a complex tax regime, industry executives say."While we have made a start with getting in mobile assembling, we want to move up the value chain," Indias telecoms secretary Aruna Sundarajan told reporters."The Nokia escapade is in peoples memory when they try to come here," a second industry source told Reuters at the first Indian Mobile Congress in capital New Delhi, which ended on Friday.
Sundarajan said the government was also trying to give investors "a reasonable degree of certainty", while also dealing with constant disruption to the industry. Nokia eventually suspended mobile handset production at its southern India facility."The Phased Manufacturing Programme began in 2016 with the manufacture of phone chargers and batteries and envisages the production of higher-end components by 2020.TAX DISPUTESOthers listed the lack of skilled engineers and a sparse network of local component makers. The government has since said it would not take any hasty decisions."Labour laws are lax, theres China Ultra capacitor components Factory little effort to build a component ecosystem and logistics, and transport remains a big problem," the third source said. Among the headline-grabbing details was a plan to eventually make Apple iPhones in India.6 billion 2015 diesel locomotive contract with General Electric.
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