'WTO can't interfere in India's IT export restrictions'

India is well within its rights to seek a trusted and safe supply chain for its digital ecosystem, said a senior government official, after the US, China, Korea and Taiwan raised concerns on import restrictions imposed by New Delhi on laptops, computers, servers and other IT products.

- Gulveen Aulakh

The concerns were raised in a meeting of the World Trade Organization.

The official, who did not want to be named, said any intervention from the WTO in matters of security and trust would be unwarranted, adding that the government had a “zero tolerance, zero compromise" stand on building a trusted digital backbone and ecosystem.