Apple plans to move the assembly of all iPhones destined for the US market in India: the Financial Times reveals it, learned of the decision to circumvent the duties imposed by President Donald Trump in China.
The duties war is pushing the apple technology giant to move the production of iPhones intended for the American market From China to India: reveals the Financial Timeslearned of Apple’s strategy aimed at “diversify your supply chain“With the aim of”supplement from the India of the totality of the beyond 60 million iPhones sold every year in the United States“.
The iPhones for the United States will be produced in India
The assembly in India of the iPhones sold in the United States would start already next year, involving for Apple a doubling of the production of its smartphones in Indiaafter almost two decades in which the company has invested in China to create the production line that fueled its global rise. China, as known, has been the subject of the most aggressive duties by President Donald Trumpdespite the fact that the latter then showed the desire to negotiate with Beijing.
China is also the country where Apple produces most of its iPhones, through third parties, such as Foxconn, even if in recent years the company has constantly strengthened its production capacity in India, commissioning the production of components to companies such as the Tata Electronics on contract. Currently, the assembly of most smartphones takes place in China anyway.
Because Europe has fined Apple and destination for 700 million euros: the reason are not the duties
The announcement of the duties has already made it lose 700 billion dollars of market value in Apple, which in recent weeks hastened to export the iPhones already produced to India to the United States, to avoid the highest duties imposed on China.
Apple’s move to get around the duties imposed by Trump in China
The move to assemble all the iPhones intended for the US market in India, as the last phase of the production process, would allow Apple to circumvent the issue of duties imposed by Trump to China, initially higher than 100% on all imports from the Asian country and then temporarily suspended for smartphones, currently subject to a separate rate of 20%. India was instead affected by duties of 26%, these too temporarily suspended, while Nuova Delhi pushes For a bilateral commercial agreement with the US. During the visit to India this week, vice -president JD Vance said that the two countries are making “excellent progress” in the negotiations.
Apple did not comment on the rumors published today by Financial Times Which, if confirmed, will see the US giant increase the production capacity in India to satisfy all orders from the United States. Already last year, in ampiliare production from India, the companies commissioned by Apple started to import sets of pre -assembled components from China.
“We believe this will be an important move for Apple, who He will thus be able to maintain his growth and his momentum – commented the analyst Daniel Newman, CEO of the research company Futurum Group -. We are observing in real time how a company with these resources is moving at a relatively rapid speed to deal with the tariff risk“.
