Dell is ready to ‘Make in India’ but with some changes in rules

Dell, the multinational computer technology company from America, is willing to use India as a manufacturing hub for its exports to South Asia; however, it wants a more helpful set of rules and regulations to do so, said its global CFO Thomas W Sweet.

Sweet was in India for a short trip and also met India’s finance minister Arun Jaitley. In an interaction with ET, he said that recent changes to India’s duty structure have definitely helped Dell increase its production from its India plant; however, for exporting, it would require more from the government.

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"There is a lot of opportunity for India to be a great domestic market for technology consumption, but there is also a great opportunity for it to be an exporter of technology," said Sweet.

For Dell, India’s market is "growing very nicely", but can perform even better as a regional manufacturing hub, however, that "takes times, takes the right set of policies to enable this."

About his meeting with the FM, he said, "Our conversations are in line with what the government has been saying...that part of being a global economy is being both a domestic consumption economy and an exporter. So we think there is an opportunity (to export) at an appropriate time, when policies and framework that encourage that kind of economic activity."

However, he added that he doesn’t expect things to change overnight.

"There is a lot on the government's plate right now with GST, etc. But over time making sure that the framework around how you treat exporters and the exporters make sense, is important to us."

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