{"id":961894,"date":"2025-09-16T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=961894"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:09:24","slug":"chip-companies-grapple-with-import-curbs-on-raw-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/16\/chip-companies-grapple-with-import-curbs-on-raw-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip companies grapple with import curbs on raw materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Semiconductor firms and electronics manufacturers are facing challenges to importing critical specialised raw materials which include gold wire, solder paste, epoxy compounds and lead frames, industry executives said. While import of some of these items requires a licence from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, others attract high custom duties, impeding cost competitiveness, they said. <\/p>\n<p>The industry has proposed a 10-year, zero-duty import regime for these critical raw materials under the IGCR (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) framework to enhance cost competitiveness, reduce supply chain dependencies on imports and attract investments from supply chain firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Semiconductor firms and electronics manufacturers are facing challenges to importing critical specialised raw materials which include gold wire, solder paste, epoxy compounds and lead frames, industry executives said. While import of some of these items requires a licence from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, others attract high custom duties, impeding cost competitiveness, they said. The industry has proposed a 10-year, zero-duty import regime for these critical raw materials under the IGCR (Import of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty) framework to enhance cost competitiveness, reduce supply chain dependencies on imports and attract investments from supply chain firms.<\/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-961894","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\/961894","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=961894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}