Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: India on August 3,announced an immediate ban on import of laptops and personal computers, noting that any entity or company planning to bring laptops and computers for sale in India will have to apply for and obtain a “valid licence for restricted imports”.
The sudden move means that companies like Apple, which sells MacBooks as well as Mac mini and other computers, will have to immediately stop importing these gadgets in India. The same rules also apply to companies like Lenovo, HP, Asus, Acer, Samsung and others that too sell laptops and personal computers in India after importing them from abroad.
Most of the laptops and personal computers sold in India are manufactured or assembled in China, and with this new rule the government might be hoping to shift some of this manufacturing and assembling to India. This is similar to what the country has achieved with smartphone manufacturing. The directive on import restrictions for laptops was issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade.
