Face-off aside, imports from China remain high

Despite promoting domestic production in a big way after the standoff with China, India still imports a large quantity of electronic goods and smart phone components from the communist country.

Of the total imports, 37% of electronics components and 45% of smart phone components were imported from China in the last financial year, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Sanjay Dhotre informed Rajya Sabha.

Replying to BJP member K C Ramamurthy, he said that according to data available from the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S), of the total Rs 1,15,558 crore electronic component imports in 2019-20, the imports from China were worth Rs 42,983 crore, amounting to about 37%. Of the total Rs 56,039 crore worth smart phone components imported in 2019-20, Rs 25,441 crore worth goods were imported from China, which amounts to about 45%.