Mobile cos seek review of duty on parts as imports from Vietnam soar

The scorching pace of imports of mobile phone components from Vietnam has set alarm bells ringing in the industry, prompting handset makers to ask the government not to impose any additional duties on components and to re-evaluate present duties.

India has imported mobile phone components worth more than $1 billion from Vietnam — with which India has a free trade agreement (FTA) —in the first half of this fiscal alone, compared to $800 million in the whole of 2018-19 and just over $600 million in FY18, an industry association of companies making handset in India has informed the government.