Apple gathered $ 22 billion (about Rs 1,89,412 crore), which was priced at the iPhone in India in 12 months, which ended on March, with an increase of about 60 percent in production compared to the previous year as compared to the previous year.
Cupertino, the California-facilitated company now makes 20 percent of its prized iPhones in South Asian country, or one in five, according to those familiar with the case who have not made the information public, have not been identified as. The dollar figure represents the gate value of the estimated factory of equipment rather than marked-up retail value.
The ramp-up suggests that the iPhone manufacturer and its suppliers are intensifying a axis from China to India, a process began when Harsha Kovid lockdown hurts production at the largest plant in Lockdown Apple. 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 Vistron Corp and controlled the operation of Patron Corp, is also a major supplier.
Apple did not respond to the request of comment outside regular commercial hours.
In the production of total India, Apple exported 1.5 trillion rupees ($ 17.4 billion) from the region in the financial year through March 2025, country’s minister Said On 8 April.
The showing of iPhone from India accelerated after President Donald 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.
Apple will fast preference iPhones from India’s supply chain for its American customers, Bloomberg News Informed First.
Trump administration late Friday night Exempted Electronics goods including smartphones and computers from its mutual tariff. This is good news for companies such as Apple and NVIDIA, although China does not appear to spread to separate 20 percent of Duty of Trump, applied 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 Friday, Trump’s cumulative levy on China remains at 145 percent and will possibly force companies such as Apple to intensify their supply chain shifts.
But with about 200 suppliers and heavy dependence on China, it may take years to play out of going to other countries. Despite Trump’s ambition, the US has the ambition to create iPhones, Apple is unlikely to transfer production at any time, in which there is no time due to factors including the facilities required to produce equipment and lack of labor.
Apple’s CEO Tim Cook has often praised China’s high-level skills in creating his marquette equipment. In 2022, Bloomberg Intelligence estimated Only 10 percent of Apple’s production capacity will take eight years to exit China.
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.
Modi is also demanding to widen electronics Component manufacturing The new financial encouragement focuses on $ 2.7 billion (about Rs 23,246 crore), and on its further focus Semiconductor Arbitrations.
Apple has about eight percent of the market in India’s smartphone market, where it Sales – A large part of those people from iPhones reached about $ 8 billion (about Rs 68,877 crore) in FY 2024.
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