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Apple is considering spell more iPhones from India to sidestep the 54 % extra tariffs on goods import from China that U.S. Chief Executive Donald Trump announced last week , the Wall Street Journalreported , quote anonymous sources .
The company attend this as a inadequate - term measure while it seeks to talk terms with the Trump judicature to get an immunity from the tariffs , as it does n’t yet want to revamp its supplying chain built around China , the composition said .
compare to the Modern 54 % tariffs on Chinese - made goods , the U.S. has propose a 26 % tariffs on commodity imported from India . If the duty are n’t brought down and Apple continues to import iPhones from China , an iPhone 16 Pro that cost$550 to import before duty could be an additional $ 300 now .
Apple was on rail to make 25 million iPhones in India this year , with 10 million units for the local market place , the Wall Street Journal cited Bank of America psychoanalyst Wamsi Mohan as saying . He order that if Apple settle to import all 25 million iPhones to the U.S. , it would satisfy about 50 % of the demand in the U.S. market place .