iPhone production in India: Foxconn allegedly withdraws Chinese employees

Apple’s attempts to establish India as an important new manufacturing location for iPhone & Co. has been running well so far, but there are always disturbances. For example, the Chinese government had tried to ban machines and other components that were to be exported to India in order to build up the production as “military technology”. Now there are problems with the finished foxconn. This is said to have deducted numerous Chinese -born employees, although 20 percent of all iPhones are now being built in India.

300 Chinese flown

That reports the Financial news agency Bloomberg. Apparently “hundreds of” Chinese engineers and technicians are affected. Apparently the plan has existed for two months. At that time, Foxconn told the first Chinese employees that they were supposed to return. Since then, “more than 300” people have flown. There were currently “mainly supporting employees” from Taiwan, where Foxconn has his headquarters, in India.

What reasons the deduction has is not yet leaked. Bloomberg speculates that it has to do with political decisions from Beijing: the government is trying to prevent the technology transfer towards India as far as possible. Foxconn itself depends on Beijing, so pressure should also give in. At the beginning of the year, officials in Beijing, according to Bloomber, asked the supervisory authorities and local governments to restrict the export of equipment to India and Southeast Asia. This could be an attempt to prevent companies from moving their production abroad, it said.

Big projects in India

Apple plans to produce all iPhones intended for the United States in India by the end of 2026 to bypass the US import tariffs for Chinese goods. However, the US government-and specifically President Donald J. Trump-had already announced that this relocation does not want to-Apple should produce in the USA.

For Apple, the problems in India come to the wrong time: there you are preparing the mass production of the iPhone 17. In addition, a new iPhone plant in southern India is being built up for billions of US dollars. Neither Apple nor Foxconn commented on the report.