India: iPhone production in full gear-all new models from the subcontinent

Just in time for the start of sales of iPhone 17, Apple has raised its production in India as far as possible. The local production partners are now operating Five factories distributed across the countryreports the financial news agency Bloomberg. In practice, this means that all the expected four new iPhone models-according to the current status iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 and the particularly thin iPhone 17 Air-will come from the subcontinent, and immediately at the start of sales. In the past, Apple initially only had more complex models assembled in China.

Tata Group takes over half of the production

According to the report, the plan is to produce as many of the new iPhones in India as possible for the US market in order to bypass higher tariffs from the Trump administration to China products. Apple CEO Tim Cook had reached an agreement with the White House. However, there are threats between the United States and India Because of the purchase of Russian raw materials New disputes. According to Bloomberg sources, deliveries from Southeast Asia will begin soon.

Just recently two more factories started: one of the local Tata Group in Hosur (Tamil Nadu) and one of the Taiwanese main fiplier Foxconn near Bengaluru (Karnataka). The Tata Group in particular, a multi -company, which produces almost everything from machines to cars in India, benefits from Apple’s production expansion. According to the report, half of the iPhone factories on the subcontinent, which are planned over the next two years, are in their possession-measured by the output. This is all the more astonishing than that the group was missing the experience in iPhone production, while you are used to Foxconn, factories also in new regions- about Brazil – to stamp out of the ground for Apple.

Strongly accelerated production sales

In the four months since April 1, iPhones worth $ 7.5 billion left Indian factories. This shows the direction: in the last fiscal year the total amount was just $ 17 billion. Apple still expects around $ 1.1 billion to spend on tariffs in the current quarter. According to the current deal with the Trump administration, iPhones and other electronics products from India do not fall into the so-called sector tariffs, which actually cover all products.

It is also exciting that Apple apparently succeeds in producing the iPhone 17 Air in India – although it is a very complex product due to the thin construction. The group had recently struggled with the Chinese government, which had partially banned citizens of the country to travel to India to help Apple to build up the factory. The necessary starting products for the iPhone still come from the People’s Republic, because Apple’s suppliers are sitting there. More and more components should also be produced locally, at least those in which this is comparatively little complex.