The American President Donald Trump speaks during a round table discussion in Doha, Qatar, May 15, 2025. Photocredit: Reuters/Brian Snyder
The American President Donald Trump said he was the Tim Cook of Apple Inc. has asked to stop building factories in India, which focuses on the plans of the iPhone maker to diversify the production of China.
“I had a small problem with Tim Cook yesterday,” Trump said about his conversation with the Apple Chief Executive Officer in Qatar, where he has a state visit. “He is building everywhere in India. I don’t want you to build in India.” As a result of their discussion, Trump said that Apple will “increase their production in the United States.”
India has one of the highest tariff barriers in the world and it is very difficult to sell American products in the most densely populated country of the planet, Trump said. However, he said that India made an offer to drop rates for American goods, because the Asian nation is looking for an agreement on import tax.
The American president’s comments throw a key in Apple’s plan to import most iPhones it sells in the US in the US by the end of next year in the US, which accelerates a shift beyond China to reduce risks related to rates and geopolitical tensions. Apple makes most of his iPhones in China and has no smartphone production in the US.
Apple and his suppliers have accelerated a pivot point of no. 2 -economy in the world, a process that started hard Covid -Lockdowns the production on the largest factory. Rates introduced by Trump and the tensions of Beijing-Washington have encouraged Apple to strengthen that effort.
The majority of India-made iPhones are collected in the Foxconn Technology Group factory in South India. Tata Group’s Electronics Manufacturing Arm, which the local company of Wistron Corp. has bought and the activities of Pegatron Corp. In India runs, there is also an important supplier. Tata and Foxconn also build new plants and add production capacity in South India, Bloomberg News reported earlier.
In the 12 months to March, Apple assembled $ 22 billion to iPhones in India, so that production increased by almost 60% the previous year.
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Published on May 15, 2025
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