Alternative to Chinese Brands in Electronics Category

Introduction

China sales low cost option for almost every product in India. China has complete monopoly in almost every electronic product in India and in many cases world wide. India's imports from China is highest among imports from all countries (317 billion INR out of 1913.24 billion INR = 16% Ref: tradingeconomics). Electronics category accounts for 11% of overall exports.

China is world no. 1 in terms of net export (worth of exported goods - worth of imported goods). India on the other hand has negative (-127,500 USD) net export, which is among the bottom 3 among all the countries (Ref: List_of_countries_by_net_exports). One of the ways to eliminate Unemployment, poverty and border disputes is by making our country less dependent on other countries. More importantly if we can eliminate monopoly of Chinese products, it would be strengthen and prepare India against any potential disputes with China.

China GDP in 2018 is 13.6 Trillion Dollars and India's GDP is 2.7 Trillion Dollars as per world bank data i.e. China's GDP is almost 6 times of India's GDP. We have long way to go to be able to stand in front of countries like US and China.

In this article we would like to emphasize of alternatives available to Chinese products. Please share/Like this post to increase awareness about this. Please comment if you would like any correction or if you would like to contribute. I will be adding more details on alternatives in various categories.

Chinese newspaper Global Times says that for India it is very difficult to avoid Chinese product. May be it is right that we cannot completely eliminate Chinese products from our needs but just by being aware of alternatives and being conscious about our buying choices we can surely make huge impact.  

Alternative to Chinese Mobile Brands

As per the market research Chinese brands Huawei , Xiaomi,  Oppo, vivo and Realme in total cover 42% of mobile sells globally. Top mobile brands like Samung and Apple only have 20% and 14% sells proportion respectively. 

Segment	Price Range	Top Selling Chinese Brands	Good Non-Chinese Options	Other Non-Chinese Options	Indian Options
Average Cost	5K to 20K	Xiomi Mi Redmi Realme (Owned by Chinese company. Manufactured in India) Vivo Motorola Lenovo Coolpad LeEco	Nokia (Finland) Samsung (South Korea)	Panasonic (Japan) LG (South Korea)	Micromax Lava
High Cost	20K+	Oneplus Vivo Oppo	Samsung (South Korea) Apple (Designed in US, Manufacturing in Mongolia, China, Korea and Taiwan etc.)		None

Chinese brands mobile phone Logos

References:

1.https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mobile_phone_brands_by_country

Alternative to Chinese TVs

Segment	Price Range	Top Selling Chinese Brands	Good Non-Chinese Options	Indian Options
Low Cost	<25K	Mi TCL	Sansui (Japan) Vu (USA) Sanyo (Japan)	Onida Videocon Micromax
High Cost	25K+	Oneplus Hair	LG (South Korea) Samsung (South Korea) Sony (Japan)	None

Alternative to Chinese Laptops

Brand	Country
Lenovo	China
Apple	US
Dell	US
HP	US
Acer	Taiwan
Asus	Taiwan

I don't see any Indian brand for laptops

Alternative to Headphones

Brand	Country
Sennheiser	Germany
Sony	Japan
BoAt	Designed and Owned by India manufactured in China
JBL	US
Mi	China
HP	US
Acer	Taiwan
Asus	Taiwan

Cars/Automobiles

MG Motors in Chinese Car company. Mahindra, Tata and Bajaj are purely Indian Automobile companies. Maruti Suzuki is Joint Venture with Japanese Company Suzuki Motors. Hyundai is Korean, Toyota is Japanese.