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Portable lighting was deliberately left out of the 2018 tariff rounds. In 2025 it wasn't — and the duty landed on the metal can, the one component the rechargeable transition had left behind.
Rs 1,27,500 crore over six years, against nearly $150 billion of semiconductor imports in the nine years to FY2025. Semicon 2.0's entire outlay is about a tenth of one past import bill — and the government's own projections have the bill growing.
India exported $5.55 billion of electronic goods in August 2026 and imports roughly $40 billion of components a year. The second number decides whether the first one lasts.
India has signed a US-led statement against structural excess manufacturing capacity while under a live Section 301 investigation into exactly that. Its electronics boom rests on an exemption the same process could withdraw.
India's electronics boom is one state's boom: Tamil Nadu is 41.63% of electronics exports while Gujarat, the largest exporter, shrank 4.91%. Inside the map under the national numbers.
Electronic goods exports rose 89.82% in August 2026 and smartphones are now India's single largest exported commodity. India has won the assembly round of the China-plus-one shift — the question is whether it can win the one after it.
