{"id":1011778,"date":"2026-06-03T08:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T02:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011778"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:08:16","slug":"pcb-makers-seek-50-price-hike-as-iran-war-crushes-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/pcb-makers-seek-50-price-hike-as-iran-war-crushes-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB makers seek 50% price hike as Iran war crushes supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers are seeking a 45-50% price increase and duty exemptions for key imported components, citing unsustainable production costs due to the West Asia conflict. <\/p>\n<p>India Printed Circuit Association (IPCA), in a letter to industry stakeholders, said localisation in the $7.27-billion domestic PCB market will be frozen if manufacturers are forced to continue absorbing losses. It noted that prices of certain inputs have jumped up to 150% in six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturers are seeking a 45-50% price increase and duty exemptions for key imported components, citing unsustainable production costs due to the West Asia conflict. India Printed Circuit Association (IPCA), in a letter to industry stakeholders, said localisation in the $7.27-billion domestic PCB market will be frozen if manufacturers are forced to continue absorbing losses. It noted that prices of certain inputs have jumped up to 150% in six months.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011778","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=1011778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011803,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011778\/revisions\/1011803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}