<span style="color: #222222;">Government has exempted 35 machine parts used for manufacturing mobile phone components from the basic customs duty to promote mobile handset production in the country.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to an official notification, the finance ministry exempted items such as motherboard coating machine, PCB assembly loader, unloader from the customs duty. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These 35 capital goods are used for making mobile phone components such as a lithium-ion battery, speaker and receiver of mobile phones, data cables, optical fibre etc. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Industry body Indian Cellular and Electronics Association appreciated this move to exempt 35 capital goods from the basic customs duty. </span><br />''