{"id":997984,"date":"2026-03-13T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997984"},"modified":"2026-03-13T09:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:10:51","slug":"india-prepares-smartphone-export-incentives-in-a-boost-for-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/india-prepares-smartphone-export-incentives-in-a-boost-for-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"India prepares smartphone export incentives in a boost for Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India is drafting a new round of smartphone manufacturing incentives that would link government subsidies to exports and deeper use of locally made components, in a move that will benefit Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and their suppliers, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal \u2014 effectively a second phase of New Delhi\u2019s flagship phone production program \u2014 will start rewarding companies for shipping devices overseas, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. Unlike the current Production-Linked Incentive, or PLI, program which retires March 31 and is primarily focused on incremental domestic output, the new plan explicitly ties benefits to exports and localization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India is drafting a new round of smartphone manufacturing incentives that would link government subsidies to exports and deeper use of locally made components, in a move that will benefit Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and their suppliers, according to people familiar with the matter. The proposal \u2014 effectively a second phase of New Delhi\u2019s flagship phone production program \u2014 will start rewarding companies for shipping devices overseas, the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are private. Unlike the current Production-Linked Incentive, or PLI, program which retires March 31 and is primarily focused on incremental domestic [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997984","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\/997984","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=997984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}