Apple is doubling down on India... because of Trump?
Good news for Foxconn.
iPhone manufacturing and assembly isn't done exclusively in China. For several years, the Taiwanese industrial group Foxconn has also been assembling smartphones for the American company in India. The collaboration between the two entities could reach a new milestone in the coming weeks. Foxconn is expected to soon manufacture iPhone chassis.
Foxconn to manufacture iPhone chassis in India
The Economic Times has revealed that Foxconn is setting up a new unit in the ESR industrial park in Oragadam, Tamil Nadu, dedicated specifically to manufacturing iPhone chassis. Construction is underway, although the media outlet doesn't know when it will be completed. Until now, this part, which houses all the smartphone's internal components, was designed in India by Tata Electronics.
Foxconn is thus adding another string to its bow, having previously only assembled iPhones at its Sriperumbudur factory, already in the state of Tamil Nadu. The industrial group also handles AirPods assembly in Hyderabad and has just set up a new iPhone assembly plant near Bengaluru, a city of eight million people in southern India.
Apple's decision is likely linked to the new tariffs on imported products in the United States imposed by Donald Trump. China is the country most heavily impacted by these tariffs . However, Apple is unlikely to get away with it, even if it expands its business in India.
" I have long informed Apple's Tim Cook that I expect iPhones sold in the United States to be manufactured and built in the United States, not in India or elsewhere. If not, Apple will have to pay a tariff of at least 25% in the United States," Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social in May.
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