New Delhi:
Apple’s chief India supplier, Foxconn and Tata sent an $ 2 billion -priced iPhone to the United States in March, an all -time high, as the American company airlifted equipment to bypass President Donald Trump’s adjacent tariffs, customs data shows.
The smartphone manufacturer carried out production in India and will promote Trump’s tariff to ensure sufficient inventory in one of its largest markets in the United States to sailing the cargo flights in the United States.
In April, the US administration implemented 26% of duties on imports from India, more than 100% faced at that time compared to China. Trump has stopped most of the duties, except China for three months.
Apple’s chief India supplier Foxconn exports a $ 1.31 billion smartphone in March, the highest for a month and is equivalent to shipment for January and February, combined according to commercially available customs data reviewed by Reuters.
It consisted of Apple iPhone 13, 14, 16 and 16E models, and this year took Foxconn’s total shipment from India to $ 5.3 billion.
Export from Tata Electronics, another apple supplier, was $ 612 million in March, which was about 63% higher than the previous month, and included the iPhone 15 and 16 models.
Apple, Foxconn and Tata did not immediately respond to the remarks requests. Reuters are the first to report shipment details.
Customs data showed all the Foxconn Shipments in the United States in the air in the United States in the air in the air, and landed at various places including Los Angeles and New York, acquiring majority with Chicago.
Trump later provided exclusion from steep tariffs on some other electronics imported from China on smartphones and some other electronics, but later indicated that those discounts would be short -lived.
To accelerate the shipment, Apple lobbied Indian airport officials below 30 hours to six hours below 30 hours to cut the time required to clean the customs at Chennai Airport in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
At least six cargo jets were used in the operation, describing a source of “defeating tariff”.
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