{"id":836569,"date":"2024-07-24T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=836569"},"modified":"2024-07-24T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T04:19:56","slug":"budget-2024-25-sitharaman-proposes-bcd-reduction-to-15-on-phones-mobile-pcba-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/24\/budget-2024-25-sitharaman-proposes-bcd-reduction-to-15-on-phones-mobile-pcba-chargers\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2024-25: Sitharaman proposes BCD reduction to 15% on phones, mobile PCBA, chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday proposed a reduction in basic customs duty (BCD) to 15% on electronic items such as mobile phones, mobile printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and mobile chargers. The BCD was 20% earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a three-fold increase in domestic production and almost a 100-fold jump in exports of mobile phones in the last six years, the Indian mobile industry has matured. In the interest of consumers, I now propose to reduce the basic customs duty (BCD) on mobile phone, mobile PCBA, and mobile chargers to 15%,\u201d Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget 2024-25 in Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Tuesday proposed a reduction in basic customs duty (BCD) to 15% on electronic items such as mobile phones, mobile printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and mobile chargers. The BCD was 20% earlier. \u201cWith a three-fold increase in domestic production and almost a 100-fold jump in exports of mobile phones in the last six years, the Indian mobile industry has matured. In the interest of consumers, I now propose to reduce the basic customs duty (BCD) on mobile phone, mobile PCBA, and mobile chargers to 15%,\u201d Sitharaman said while presenting the Union Budget 2024-25 [&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-836569","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\/836569","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=836569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}