{"id":1002453,"date":"2026-04-11T09:28:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002453"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:07:40","slug":"supreme-court-of-india-seeks-replies-on-28-igst-plea-on-phone-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/supreme-court-of-india-seeks-replies-on-28-igst-plea-on-phone-batteries\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court of India seeks replies on 28% IGST plea on phone batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from several mobile phone manufacturers, including local units of Samsung, LG, Vivo, and Oppo, on an appeal by the customs department seeking a higher ad valorem integrated goods and services tax (IGST) of 28% on imported lithium-ion batteries. <\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan agreed to hear the appeal, which challenges a 2025 ruling of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) that held a lower IGST rate of 12% applicable on imports of lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones and tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought responses from several mobile phone manufacturers, including local units of Samsung, LG, Vivo, and Oppo, on an appeal by the customs department seeking a higher ad valorem integrated goods and services tax (IGST) of 28% on imported lithium-ion batteries. A bench comprising Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan agreed to hear the appeal, which challenges a 2025 ruling of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT) that held a lower IGST rate of 12% applicable on imports of lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones and tablets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}