Indian Mobile Phone Makers Push for Tax Relief as China Tightens Equipment Exports

India’s mobile phone manufacturers are urging New Delhi, ahead of the Union Budget 2026–27, to fix what they call an inverted duty structure that makes local production costlier than importing finished machinery. Through ICEA, whose members include Apple, Foxconn, Xiaomi, Vivo, and Oppo, they seek duty cuts on capital equipment parts and key mobile components to sustain export-led growth.