Current Affairs - International - Discussion

Japan raised a complaint at the World Trade Organization about India's duties on mobile phones, base stations and routers, and the circuit boards and other components that go into them. The complaint said that India had sought to foster domestic production by adjusting various taxes including customs duties, especially since it launched the Make in India campaign in September 2014. It also said that India's WTO membership terms specified that the import tariff on all the disputed goods was zero percent, but India applied a 20% tariff to mobile phones and base stations, and tariffs of 10%, 15% and 20% on the other products.