Chinese techies' exit likely to hamper India's smartphone export success

This comes after Beijing verbally asked regulatory authorities and local governments to curb technology transfers and movement of technicians to other countries

Reports of China recalling its engineers from Foxconn’s India plant have raised fears about its impact on the production and export capacity of made-in-India smartphones. This comes after Beijing asked authorities to curb the transfer of technology and technicians to other countries in a bid to prevent firms from shifting their manufacturing base out of China. India’s smartphone exports had touched $24.13 billion in FY25 — 55 per cent higher than FY24.

 

 

Share of smartphone shipments to the US based on the country of origin (volume in %)  

In terms of volume, 26 per cent of smartphones