{"id":1035443,"date":"2026-09-15T09:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035443"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:37:59","slug":"mobile-phone-industry-seeks-13-gst-cut-amid-weak-demand-high-memory-chip-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/mobile-phone-industry-seeks-13-gst-cut-amid-weak-demand-high-memory-chip-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phone industry seeks 13% GST cut amid weak demand, high memory chip prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone industry body ICEA has written to the government seeking a reduction in GST on mobile phones to 5 per cent from the current 18 per cent amid a decline in domestic demand, especially due to rising memory chip prices. <\/p>\n<p>India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) in a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dated September 2 said India is now the world&#8217;s second-largest mobile-phone manufacturer by volume, and mobile phones became the country&#8217;s largest export product in FY 2025-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile phone industry body ICEA has written to the government seeking a reduction in GST on mobile phones to 5 per cent from the current 18 per cent amid a decline in domestic demand, especially due to rising memory chip prices. India Cellular and Electronics Association (ICEA) in a letter to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dated September 2 said India is now the world&#8217;s second-largest mobile-phone manufacturer by volume, and mobile phones became the country&#8217;s largest export product in FY 2025-26.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035443","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=1035443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035451,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035443\/revisions\/1035451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}