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Trump wants Apple to stop building iPhones in India -- just as production ramps up
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Trump wants Apple to stop building iPhones in India — just as production ramps up
Catherine Baab
Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM EDT • 2 min read
President Donald Trump is pressuring Apple (AAPL) to pull back from India and move production to the U.S., telling CEO Tim Cook he doesn’t want iPhones “built in India.”
“I said, ‘Tim, don’t do that,’” Trump said Thursday in Qatar. “India can take care of themselves.” The remarks came just weeks after the administration rolled out sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports, which encouraged Apple to shift more production to India.
Now policy whiplash and stray remarks are once again putting the world’s largest company and its highly complex supply chain under pressure.
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Trump wants Apple to stop building iPhones in India — just as production ramps up
Catherine Baab
Thu, May 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM EDT • 2 min read
President Donald Trump is pressuring Apple (AAPL) to pull back from India and move production to the U.S., telling CEO Tim Cook he doesn’t want iPhones “built in India.”
“I said, ‘Tim, don’t do that,’” Trump said Thursday in Qatar. “India can take care of themselves.” The remarks came just weeks after the administration rolled out sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports, which encouraged Apple to shift more production to India.
Now policy whiplash and stray remarks are once again putting the world’s largest company and its highly complex supply chain under pressure.
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