{"id":131039,"date":"2025-08-09T06:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131039\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T06:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T06:26:11","slug":"us-tariffs-force-indian-electronics-makers-to-explore-new-markets-amidst-pricing-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/131039\/","title":{"rendered":"US tariffs force Indian electronics makers to explore new markets amidst pricing challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several electronics makers are reconsidering local expansion and scouting alternative overseas markets as the latest US tariffs negate India\u2019s earlier pricing edge over China, although key items \u2014 such as smartphones, tablets and laptops \u2014 remain exempted from the 50% levies announced so far. <\/p>\n

Munoth Industries<\/a>, which makes lithium-ion cells for power banks in India, had inked a definitive agreement in January with US-based Anker to supply cells for power banks to be sold in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, lithium cells are exempted from tariffs, but if Trump puts tariffs on them, our US business may very well move out to other companies,\u201d Jaswant Munoth, vice chairman, Munoth Industries, told ET.
The company had earmarked a fourth of its capacity to supply 500,000-1 million cells a month to the US.\"US
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Munoth said the US business offered a higher margin, almost double that at home, besides higher quality controls.\u201cLosing the US would be a big loss for our financial projections, even if capacity remains utilised for domestic supply. Future revenue will surely come under question,\u201d he said.The US administration has levied a total of 50% (25%+25%) tariffs on imports from India. To be sure, smartphones, laptops, tablets, servers, certain telecom equipment, integrated circuits, and flat panel display modules are among 17-18 HS codes exempted from the current tariffs. Industry estimates suggest exports of these items could be worth about $50 billion.<\/p>\n

But all other electronics products, including electric inverters, battery chargers, parts of transformers, etc., are among the 14 HS codes facing 50% tariffs.<\/p>\n

Wait and watch
Meanwhile, leading local contract manufacturer Dixon Technologies<\/a>, which had earlier said it expects a surge in mobile phone exports to the US by FY27 for its customer Motorola, is now in a waitand-watch mode, a person familiar with the developments told ET. <\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, there is nothing Dixon can do, honestly, but to wait,\u201d said the person cited above. \u201cNobody has an answer to this problem and companies cannot approach the government for help unless the tariff situation is definitively defined.\u201d <\/p>\n

The person added, however, that once the US government announces its tariffs on mobile phones and other semiconductor-based products\u2014likely by the third week of August\u2014they will go to the government for assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several electronics makers are reconsidering local expansion and scouting alternative overseas markets as the latest US tariffs negate…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":131040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79696,79692,79,79700,79694,79701,79698,79699,79695,79697,67,132,68,79693],"class_list":{"0":"post-131039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china-pricing-edge","10":"tag-dixon-technologies","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-electronics-contract-manufacturing","13":"tag-india-electronics-manufacturing","14":"tag-indian-electronics-industry","15":"tag-lithium-ion-cells-export","16":"tag-mobile-phone-exports-to-us","17":"tag-munoth-industries","18":"tag-smartphones-and-laptops-tariffs","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-tariffs-on-electronics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114997387845069000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}