{"id":1012066,"date":"2026-06-04T08:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012066"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:56:45","slug":"goqii-moves-sc-over-higher-customs-duty-on-fitness-trackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/04\/goqii-moves-sc-over-higher-customs-duty-on-fitness-trackers\/","title":{"rendered":"GOQii moves SC over higher customs duty on fitness trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Fitness technology company GOQii Technologies on Tuesday sought Supreme Court&#8217;s intervention to decide whether its imported fitness bands and activity trackers are communication devices attracting higher customs duty of 10% or 20%, or pedometers attracting a lower rate of 7.5%. <\/p>\n<p>A bench led by Justice PS Narsimha sought response from the customs department on GOQii Technologies&#8217; appeal challenging classification of fitness bands as communication devices by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal on April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Fitness technology company GOQii Technologies on Tuesday sought Supreme Court&#8217;s intervention to decide whether its imported fitness bands and activity trackers are communication devices attracting higher customs duty of 10% or 20%, or pedometers attracting a lower rate of 7.5%. A bench led by Justice PS Narsimha sought response from the customs department on GOQii Technologies&#8217; appeal challenging classification of fitness bands as communication devices by the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal on April 13.<\/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-1012066","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\/1012066","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=1012066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012089,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012066\/revisions\/1012089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}