India still depends China for electronics, smartphone components

Despite India promoting domestic production of electronics, a large number of electronics and smartphone components are still imported from China.

Of the total import, 37% of electronic components and 45% smartphone 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, “As per the 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 import from China was Rs 42,983 crore, which amounts to about 37%.”