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India surpasses China in smartphone exports to US​

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India has surpassed China in smartphone exports to the United States, a significant achievement fueled by initiatives like Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. This shift has dramatically increased India's share of US smartphone imports to 44% while China's share has fallen to 25%.​

By ANI
Aug 21, 2025, 11:36:00 AM IST

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India has overtaken China in smartphone exports to the United States, marking a major milestone in the country's manufacturing journey, according to a social media post by PIB citing research firm Canalys. As per the post, schemes such as Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) have played a key role in reshaping the electronics sector.

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It said, "As a result of schemes like Make in India and PLI, India is now moving at a new pace in those industrial sectors in which it was never even considered a key manufacturer before. According to a report by research firm Canalys, in the second quarter of this calendar year, i.e., April-June, India has also overtaken China in terms of smartphones exported to the US."

The post states that the share of Made in India smartphones in US imports climbed to 44 per cent during April-June 2025, a sharp rise from 13 per cent in the same quarter of 2024. At the same time, China's share dropped from 61 per cent a year earlier to just 25 per cent in the same period.


This uptick in smartphone exports is supported by a decade-long transformation of India's electronics industry. In the previous month, the Ministry of Electronics & IT detailed the growth trajectory in a release, showcasing that between 2014-15 and 2024-25, India's electronics and mobile manufacturing sector has witnessed a notable transformation. Exports too saw a dramatic jump, rising from Rs. 38,000 crore to Rs. 3.27 lakh crore in the same period.

India surpasses China in smartphone exports to US​

India has surpassed China in smartphone exports to the United States, a significant achievement fueled by initiatives like Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. This shift has dramatically increased India's share of US smartphone imports to 44% while China's share has fallen to 25%.​

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India has overtaken China in smartphone exports to the United States, marking a major milestone in the country's manufacturing journey, according to a social media post by PIB citing research firm Canalys. As per the post, schemes such as Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) have played a key role in reshaping the electronics sector.

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It said, "As a result of schemes like Make in India and PLI, India is now moving at a new pace in those industrial sectors in which it was never even considered a key manufacturer before. According to a report by research firm Canalys, in the second quarter of this calendar year, i.e., April-June, India has also overtaken China in terms of smartphones exported to the US."

The post states that the share of Made in India smartphones in US imports climbed to 44 per cent during April-June 2025, a sharp rise from 13 per cent in the same quarter of 2024. At the same time, China's share dropped from 61 per cent a year earlier to just 25 per cent in the same period.



This uptick in smartphone exports is supported by a decade-long transformation of India's electronics industry. In the previous month, the Ministry of Electronics & IT detailed the growth trajectory in a release, showcasing that between 2014-15 and 2024-25, India's electronics and mobile manufacturing sector has witnessed a notable transformation. Exports too saw a dramatic jump, rising from Rs. 38,000 crore to Rs. 3.27 lakh crore in the same period.

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This is an effing joke. 85% or more of the parts for India's assembled cellphones come from China and the rest from other countries in East Asia.

Make in India: The 99% phone assembly masks a bigger gap

Components are the DNA of electronics. But nearly 90% of the components that go into electronic goods in India are sourced from China, Korea, and Taiwan. We look at the Indian government’s plan to change that with the recently launched ECM scheme.

www.livemint.com

If China stops supplying cellphone parts for even one day, there goes your 'exports'.

@Jiangnan brother - look at this....

 

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Where are these ‘Made in India’ smart phones being manufactured?​

Dr Rakesh Varma Ex IAS VR​

After a massive campaign by the Narendra Modi government, India seems to have emerged as a hub for electronic manufacturing. The numbers however do not seem to add up.

Indian "nationalism" has spurred a massive growth in the production of high-quality counterfeit electronic goods and this is not sustainable in the long term. The reality is that all the phones produced in India are completely assembled here by importing almost all the parts from various countries mostly from China. While China imports processors from Taiwan to manufacture phones, in India, over 90% of the parts have to be imported.

India’s ‘Make in India’ initiative is a policy with incongruities. Swadeshi products should be made with domestic capital, not foreign money, but this has led to a jump in the ‘ease of doing business’ ranking without real economic growth. The government must realise that industrialisation cannot be kick-started by a series of bills in Parliament and hosting investors’ meetings.

Telecom players say that around 4 million phones are assembled in India on a daily basis and approximately one crore laptops are assembled annually at various hubs across states such as Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. This directly contradicts the official statistics released by DIPP which shows that not even 1 million mobile phones were manufactured in India in FY 16, while 4 million units were imported.

The PLI scheme aims to boost domestic manufacturing and attract large investments in mobile phone manufacturing and electronic components, including assembly, testing, marking and packaging. The scheme also aims to support indigenous research and development capabilities in the electronics sector with a view to increase market share of domestically manufactured mobile handsets. In this way it will be able to create jobs in expanding sectors like mobile phones and electronics.

The Uttar Pradesh Deendayal smart phone tablet scheme is a government initiative in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, to provide low-cost smartphones and tablets to students and teachers. The scheme aims to promote digital education and bridge the digital divide in the state. Under this scheme, the government provides smartphones and tablets at a subsidized rate to students and teachers, with the goal of increasing access to digital educational resources and improving the quality of education. The state government will distribute of tablets and smartphones to 1 crore students in a phased manner.

It is not uncommon for companies to falsely claim that their products are "Made in India" when they are actually imported and only assembled in the country. This is known as "country of origin fraud" and it undermines the "Make in India" initiative, which aims to boost domestic manufacturing and create jobs.

We need to increase awareness about this issue so consumers know what they're buying when they see "Made in India" stickers on goods or hear claims that products are made domestically when they aren't really made here at all!

The truth is that all the phones that have the 'made in India' badge are made here by importing almost all of their parts from various countries, mostly China.

Even China imports some parts to make phones—but that's very minimal. For example, they import processors mostly from Taiwan to manufacture the phones.

In India, however, over 90% of the parts must be imported to make a phone. It is almost impossible to make a phone only on resources from India. Mobile phones have many parts like processors, batteries, screens, etc. There is no company in India which is making processors. Making good screens and batteries are also difficult tasks.

 

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This is an effing joke. 85% or more of the parts for India's assembled cellphones come from China and the rest from other countries in East Asia.

Make in India: The 99% phone assembly masks a bigger gap

Components are the DNA of electronics. But nearly 90% of the components that go into electronic goods in India are sourced from China, Korea, and Taiwan. We look at the Indian government’s plan to change that with the recently launched ECM scheme.

www.livemint.com

If China stops supplying cellphone parts for even one day, there goes your 'exports'.

@Jiangnan brother - look at this....

This has been replied multiple times but he keeps repeating. Even if I accept all your arguments, We have reduced China from cell manufacturer to part supplier. We started assembling Japanese bike in collaboration with Japanese companies. Hero with Honda, TVS with Suzuki, Bajaj with Kawasaki and Escort with Yamaha. Today, all these companies are no more in collaboration and bigger bikes manufacturer than the companies with whom they had collaborated. This is a Globalization procedure.

When we shall make part, you will cry that still cover comes from China. When everything will be made in India, you will cry that in initial stages, It was supplied by China. Basically, you are cry baby and you will continue to cry.

 

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This has been replied multiple times but he keeps repeating. Even if I accept all your arguments, We have reduced China from cell manufacturer to part supplier. We started assembling Japanese bike in collaboration with Japanese companies. Hero with Honda, TVS with Suzuki, Bajaj with Kawasaki and Escort with Yamaha. Today, all these companies are no more in collaboration and bigger bikes manufacturer than the companies with whom they had collaborated. This is a Globalization procedure.

When we shall make part, you will cry that still cover comes from China. When everything will be made in India, you will cry that in initial stages, It was supplied by China. Basically, you are cry baby and you will continue to cry.

I must commend your tenacity and endurance.