228/sc #Supply#Chain#Diversification: #USA needs to urgently shift the labor intensive & medium tech parts of its defence supply chains from 🇨🇳 to 🇮🇳 with the collateral benefit of getting more defence orders under #Atman#Nirbhar production; #GOI must ensure #EODB/#EORC
230/sc #Supply#Chain#Diversification . Note that Vietnam is a competitor in location of consumer digital products supply chains. (Reason & solution in next tweet)
231/sc One reason #Vietnam is a more competitive location for electronic supply chains is 👇🏼. Another reason is complex #GST with >15 cesses. Third reason is ancient #Direct#tax#code (even #MNCs buy components, parts & subsystems from SMEs which are a affected by #DTC & #GST)
232/sc #Supply#Chain#Diversification gathering steam, slowly but surely. Currently #China has ~1/3 the world market for telecom & electronic exports, a dangerous dependency, which the #QUAD & #EU+ cannot risk!
234/sc Indian market for many digital products is rapidly reaching minimum efficient scale(#MES)m & only needs a little mental push to shift production from China to India: Continued Govt focus on Ease of Regulatory Compliance would accelerate the process: asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Supp…
235/sc Incentives can be equated, by reducing import tariffs on inputs used in telecom equipment & goods, computer & related products & producer electronic products to a uniform rate btwn 0-5%.
237/sc #Chinese companies wanting to follow #MNCs in shifting supply chains from #PRC to #India, are welcome to form a #JV with an #Indian partner(s) => Good decision!
240/sc Size of labor force & wage rates favour India. A lot of other handicaps have been removed by GOI, others are in process, and some still remain to be addressed! Speed of effective reform implementation, will determine speed of supply chain shift to India viz other cntrys
242/sc A comprehensive reform of customs duties applicable to electronics parts & components & other inputs like plastic & rubber products is a necessary condition for India to compete with Vietnam, in attracting supply chains for laptops, AirPods & smart watches.
243/sc #Supply#Chains finally beginning to move? Reform of #Customs#tariffs, particularly the electronics-telecom supply chain, will broaden and deepen the process.
247/sc Supply chain shifts require an appropriate Macro economic policy framework & good quality, “net worked”, infrastructure across supply chain. Product specific policies aren’t enough. Well designed/tailored subsidies help, but badly designed 1s(1 size fits all) can hinder!
248/sc Diversification of US anchored supply chains from PRC to India, needs a further push. Tariff reform can help accelerate the process in electronics, telecom, textiles & garments, the sectors monopolised by PRC
251/sc Japanese, Korean & Chinese MNCs are too well entrenched in Asia for us to benefit from #RCEP. Best path left for us, is to attract Western MNCs, by reducing tariffs on merchandise trade with USA+EU+UK to the avg of these cntrys (thru FTAs w 1 RO). bit.ly/3XQ3mXP
252/sc To ensure that Rules of Origin (RO) do not hinder/slow the supply chain shift to India, they should apply collectively to the set of developed cntrys, whose economies are complementary to ours(US, EU, UK, WEur), Ie Value Add condition is aggregable to entire set of cntrys.
253/sc The largest number of #MNCs are still from #USA, & therefore they still run the the largest global supply chains. A #US-#India#FTA could herald a major shift of supply chains from China to India, but is not on the cards, because of US internal political constraints.
255/sc #Japanese supply chains will shift to ASEAN, where Japanese companies are heavily invested and feel most comfortable. India has to target US & European companies
3/HP "Western Woke intellectuals, media and politicians (🍉🍉🍉) exaggerated random lynchings and over-generalized from few hate speeches; we should not follow their despicable example"
Upside potential & downside risks have been more or less equal since the start of the financial year (in April 2023) ecoti.in/u6n-Ub
2/IndEc A ringing endorsement👍🏼 for FDI into India by US & EU(+UK) MNCs, by four professors, in the Harvard Business Review (#HBR) 👌🏼 hbr.org/2023/06/does-y…
3/IndEc The more that US business, entrepreneurs & professionals learn about Indian infrastructure, digital economy, financial system and Green ambitions, the more #FDI will flow into manufacturing.
One should be inured to the pro-China, anti-India, bias of the Anglo Saxon world, & its subalterns [ jstor.org/stable/30030642 ], but sadly after 50 yrs, one is still not!
2/ir #India’s #rise is causing deep disquiet in the #Anglo#Saxon#World and among its subalterns. #Information#War will intensify in next 3 years, and won’t subside till India becomes the third largest economy in (current) USD.
As a National Security Strategist * find it a little difficult to interpret such statements by Senior officers of the US armed forces, in the broader context of the PRC threat!
2/nss Sweet spot for PLA aggression: #Elections in raucous democracies. => Lesson: Armed forces in threatened countries, should have more operational autonomy during election period.
2/res Ths who’ve never done #research in lifetime find it difficult to understand, why this is critical, for directing commissioning & using, good policy relevant research [An internal core of researchers is key to success]. For them ideas & analysis can be bought like software📦
3/res Any org that merely reacts to media headlines, & questions raised by critics, is like a consultancy organisation, not a think tank. It can never anticipate problems, nor create imaginative new solutions. Worlds top consultancy orgs. reward salesmanship not analysis… 4/res
#Emedicine, #Telemedicine can/will revolutionise (high quality) #health delivery not only in #India’s rural and remote areas, but also in rural areas of much richer countries!