{"id":834543,"date":"2024-07-19T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=834543"},"modified":"2024-07-19T10:26:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T04:56:48","slug":"modi-put-up-tariff-walls-now-budget-must-bring-them-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/19\/modi-put-up-tariff-walls-now-budget-must-bring-them-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi put up tariff walls. Now Budget must bring them down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that a jobs crisis is weakening his hold on power, how serious is Prime Minister Narendra Modi about reviving India\u2019s factories? We will know in next week\u2019s budget, a chance to remedy a lurch toward protectionism.<\/p>\n<p>Without fixing that folly, the country could miss an opportunity to join key global supply chains, such as those for smartphones and consumer electronics. A large home market will keep assembly lines busy \u2014 but crucial parts will be made by Chinese and Vietnamese labor. What could easily be a $100 billion-plus boost to annual factory production by the end of the decade might fail to materialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that a jobs crisis is weakening his hold on power, how serious is Prime Minister Narendra Modi about reviving India\u2019s factories? We will know in next week\u2019s budget, a chance to remedy a lurch toward protectionism. Without fixing that folly, the country could miss an opportunity to join key global supply chains, such as those for smartphones and consumer electronics. A large home market will keep assembly lines busy \u2014 but crucial parts will be made by Chinese and Vietnamese labor. What could easily be a $100 billion-plus boost to annual factory production by the end of the decade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-834543","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\/834543","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}