Apple is trying to import most of iPhones selling from India to the US by the end of next year, intensifying a change from China to reduce the risks related to tariffs and geopolitical stress.
The target means that Apple will double its annual iPhone output in India in more than 80 million units, not to be identified to discuss internal plans. Apple collected more than 40 million iPhones in India in the financial year through March 2025. It sells more than 60 million iPhones in the US a year.
Plans are the latest indications of Apple and its suppliers intensify a axis away from China, a process that began when Harsha Kovid lockdown hurts production at its biggest plant. US President Donald Trump, as well as the tariff apple introduced by Beijing-Washington stress, is motivating the apple to increase that effort.
Apple representatives in India did not immediately respond to the request of the comment. Financial Times had earlier told Informed Apple’s plan to rapid priority to iPhone from India’s supply chain for its American customers.
Cupertino, California -based company gathered $ 22 billion (about Rs 1,87,886 crore), which ended March at the price of iPhone in India in 12 months, growing about 60 percent compared to the previous year, Bloomberg reported this month. Apple is now 20 percent of iPhones in the South Asian country, or one of the five, while China remains the largest production base ever.
The wholesale of India’s made iPhones has been gathered in the factory of the Foxconn Technology Group in southern India. The Electronics Manufacturing Arm of the Tata Group, who bought the local business of Vistron Corp and runs the operating of Patron Corp in India, is also a major supplier. Tata and Foxcony are also building new plants and adding production capacity in southern India, Bloomberg News Has reported First.
In total India production, Apple exported 1.5 trillion rupees ($ 17.5 billion) from the region in the financial year in March 2025, which through the country’s technology minister, Said On 8 April.
The shipment of iPhone from India accelerated from India after Trump announced his plans for the so -called “mutual” tariffs in February. Apple’s average India production and exports increased from financial year to March.
Trump administration earlier this month Exempted Electronics goods including smartphones and computers from its mutual tariff. This is good news for companies like Apple, although Trump does not reach different 20 percent of duty on China, which applies to put pressure on Beijing.
This also means that iPhones made in India will not attract any duty till now. Preventing the exceptions made on 11 April, Trump’s cumulative levy on China remains at 145 percent, and will possibly force companies such as Apple to intensify their supply chain shift.
Apple now collects its entire iPhone range in India, including more expensive titanium Supporter modelIts manufacturing success in the world’s most populous nation is also helped to convert the country into a manufacturing center by the state subsidy for the ambition of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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