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Trump requires US iPhone production, threatens 25% of the tariff

Tim Hardvik

President Donald Trump aggravated his trading rhetoric on Friday, aiming at Apple with a potential 25% tariff if the company does not produce iPhone within the country, and not anywhere else. Through the truth of Social, after the General Director Tim Cook announced earlier this month that Indian objects will cope with most sales in the United States. Apple’s wandering in India was widely considered as a strategy to circumvent Chinese production against the background of current trade tension. “If this is not the case, Apple must be paid at least 25% in the United States to thank your [sic] for your attention to this issue!” “Yesterday I had a small problem with Tim Cook,” Trump said during his state visit to Qatar. “He is building all over India.”

Apple, it was reported that I planned to find all 60+ million annual iPhone sales in the United States from India by the end of 2026. Meanwhile, the key supplier Foxconn invests $ 1.5 billion in the expansion of Indian production, including on the display module near Chennai.

. The current production strategy of Apple, which largely depends on the Asian suppliers for the effectiveness of costs and the installed supply chains. Moving the production of iPhone in the USA will probably require mass investments in the infrastructure and can significantly increase the cost of the device, but Apple simply cannot make the transition. According to Wedbush, the production of iPhone in the United States can increase prices to ~ 3500 US dollars and will take 5-10 years, which makes them impossible. All the forum participants and visitors to the site can read and monitor the branch, but the publication is limited by the forum participants at least 100 messages.

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