India has restricted imports of laptops, tablets and personal computers with immediate effect

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While this kind of restriction is undesirable in a global economy, please stop overreacting. As per the linked report, Televisions have already been under similar restriction since last yeart. Neither has their price shot through the roof, nor have they disappeared from the Indian market.

It's just an additional license requirements for import of these products and in perfectly in line with current government's policy of improving ease of doing business for mota bhai.
 
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gourav said:
While this kind of restriction is undesirable in a global economy, please stop overreacting. As per the linked report, Televisions have already been under similar restriction since last yeart. Neither has their price shot through the roof, nor have they disappeared from the Indian market.

It's just an additional license requirements for import of these products and in perfectly in line with current government's policy of improving ease of doing business for mota bhai.
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Thanks for not saying ease of doing business with India.
 
@gourav restrictions on TVs where there for a long time, not just from last year ? For last few years, individuals passengers bringing TVs from outside had to pay hefty customs duty. Even now, after paying customs duty, it is worth bringing high end TVs from outside India, if am not mistaken.
So, people may have learned to live with the price difference ?
And local manufacturing might have taken care of the rest ?

> India's electronics imports, which include laptops, tablets and personal computers, stood at $19.7 billion in the April to June period, up 6.25% year-on-year.
If US$ is going to be more costlier in coming years, govt. is right in trying their ways to protect economic interests.
 
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Thanks for not saying ease of doing business with India.
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Why would I, most on ground experiences say that there's not been much improvement in any ease of doing business. On the other hand, in the last 9 years, we've seen multiple policies and actions targeted at benefiting 2 specific entities. The government has turned a blind eye to malpractices and scams of Adani and Ambani, whether it be the blatantly anti-competitive launch offers of JIO, or the recent stock scam of Adani.

We know both Adani and Reliance have shown interest in selling/manufacturing chips, phones, laptops, etc. Whether they have any technological expertise or not, they'll definitely have the support of our leader supreme.
 
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So, people may have learned to live with the price difference ?
And local manufacturing might have taken care of the rest ?
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They did this with solar panels, banned imports from China. Imposed domestic content requirement.
Prices went from INR 18/w to INR 37/w, now it has come down to INR 29/w. But it has still not recovered completely.

I called this back in May, the moment they announced PLI 2.0 for "IT Hardware".
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After PLI for solar panels, price increased from INR 18/watt to 37/watt because of tarrif and approval barriers, hope they won't do that to IT Hardware as well.
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6pack said:
They even did it for cooking oil. Most of the palm oil, or soyabean oil was imported and suddenly they put restrictions on it and the price went from around 50 a liter to this 150+ rupees/liter now. Guess who benefited the most.
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So are we exporting/importing Tomatoes?
 
Does that means, people should make there laptop or those required hardware purchases ASAP ?
Before stock is over or gets way too over priced ?
 
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They even did it for cooking oil. Most of the palm oil, or soyabean oil was imported and suddenly they put restrictions on it and the price went from around 50 a liter to this 150+ rupees/liter now. Guess who benefited the most.
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Adani Wilmar happening... Some issues with Malaysia a big palm oil exporter and it was thus justified.
 
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So are we exporting/importing Tomatoes?
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From years. We are already importing tomatoes, onions, corn, pulses, fruits, dry fruits, milk powder etc. Indian agriculture mostly farms wheat and rice and vegetables for local consumption which is not enough.

Google. _______ imports in India.

India imports most of its Tomato from United States, China and Italy.

India imports Onions primarily from: Afghanistan ($11M), Burma ($1.82M), United Arab Emirates ($1.2M), Egypt ($618k), and Indonesia ($377k). The fastest growing import markets in Onions for India between 2020 and 2021 were Burma ($685k), Indonesia ($377k), and New Zealand ($14.7k).

India's imports more than doubled in 2021 to over 7.2 lakh tonnes. According to research conducted by Fresh Intelligence on data obtained from the Ministry of Commerce, India's fresh fruit imports reached record levels of 721,493 tonnes in the calendar year 2021.
 
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does this restriction apply to PC parts? I dont think so, right?
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Yeah. Need to know definitively what they mean by pc parts. Is it desktop parts?
These type of news don't amaze me anymore, I mean it's been almost 10 years now. However, in a country which has not contributed anything in pc/ic manufacturing in ever, doesn't have a single Indian manufactured product, you restrict import?
High much or what!
Btw, waiting to see rationalisation from deshbhkats about this move. :)
 
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Yeah. Need to know definitively what they mean by pc parts. Is it desktop parts?
These type of news don't amaze me anymore, I mean it's been almost 10 years now. However, in a country which has not contributed anything in pc/ic manufacturing in ever, doesn't have a single Indian manufactured product, you restrict import?
High much or what!
Btw, waiting to see rationalisation from deshbhkats about this move. :)
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Honestly, life will go on just fine - HP and Dell already assemble stuff here, and they can just adjust a few processes and do that. They will be fine. Folks from niche brands that import and sell will be in trouble. This benefits companies like Jio who are trying to break into laptop space (unsurprisingly). Macbook sales might be taking a bump, but apple is already investing in assembling here, so they and others might workaround this by importing from non-china countries. Kinda like how google imports from Vietnam.

This probably gonna suck for a while but then things will fall into place. Otherwise people will just bootleg more from US/dubai.
 
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sauravghosh said:
Yeah. Need to know definitively what they mean by pc parts. Is it desktop parts?
These type of news don't amaze me anymore, I mean it's been almost 10 years now. However, in a country which has not contributed anything in pc/ic manufacturing in ever, doesn't have a single Indian manufactured product, you restrict import?
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Yeah this makes no sense: there's no Indian manufacturers at all for these parts. Banning import altogether will just put us from (Silicon) Sand Age back to the stone age. Unless this is all just a ploy to establish a monopoly for JioBook (or secure a foothold at least in the entry level market), et al.
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Btw, waiting to see rationalisation from deshbhkats about this move. :)
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Oh they will defend anything, don't worry :tearsofjoy:. All they need is a Made in India sticker to hide the Made in China one
 
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Let's not get carried away. I don't think this has anything to do with JioBook. They are probably not getting a good response to that PLI 2.0 and are finding a way to coax companies.
It will make it harder for poor families to buy a computer for their kids. Especially the first generation ones going to college / IT.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
 
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karanssh said:
Honestly, life will go on just fine - HP and Dell already assemble stuff here, and they can just adjust a few processes and do that. They will be fine. Folks from niche brands that import and sell will be in trouble. This benefits companies like Jio who are trying to break into laptop space (unsurprisingly). Macbook sales might be taking a bump, but apple is already investing in assembling here, so they and others might workaround this by importing from non-china countries. Kinda like how google imports from Vietnam.

This probably gonna suck for a while but then things will fall into place. Otherwise people will just bootleg more from US/dubai.
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The pessimism here is astounding. Phone assembly has achieved some momentum on account of similar measures and laptop assembly will too, if manufacturers are to access the market at large.

It still applies existing rules to import of one device, so it is not as if personal imports are affected, only mass imports by manufacturers. It will definitely impact availability of some products but then this is more of a measure to push local assembly and create more low-skilled jobs.
 
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Is this really true? It is so backwards… sounds like reliance jio guys lobbied to remove their competitors. :facepalm:
 
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