Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariffs if iPhone meeting doesn’t transfer to U.S.-OxBig News Network

“If Mr. Trump wants Mr. Cook to assemble iPhones in the U.S., the Apple CEO should deliver,” the founding father of the Global Trade Research Institute stated. File
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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Apple, Inc. with 25% tariffs on iPhone imports if the corporate didn’t make them domestically. Repeating his insistence that he didn’t want iPhones to be assembled in India, Mr. Trump stated in a publish on Truth Social that “I have long informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s [sic] that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,” including that if that doesn’t occur, “a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S.”

This will not be the primary time Mr. Trump has lashed out at Apple’s telephone meeting operations in India, largely contract producers with amenities in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. “We’re not interested in you building in India,” Mr. Trump stated he informed Apple CEO Tim Cook. “They can take care of themselves,” he stated, including that he anticipated the corporate to begin assembling iPhones within the U.S. as an alternative.

Apple and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

When Mr. Trump first remarked on Apple’s manufacturing in India, a senior official informed The Hindu that the federal government was not too “concerned” that the U.S. president’s phrases would have any impression on present manufacturing commitments the corporate has made in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere.

Ajay Srivastava, founding father of the Global Trade Research Institute and a former Additional Director General Foreign Trade, supplied an unconventional tackle the matter. He stated, “If Mr. Trump wants Mr. Cook to assemble iPhones in the U.S., the Apple CEO should deliver.”

“Shifting iPhone assembly from India to the U.S. could unlock over 60,000 new jobs, immediately rising to 300,000 if production also moves out of China,” Mr. Srivastava wrote earlier this month. “These are not high-tech desk jobs, but hands-on factory roles that once built America’s middle class. It’s a rare opportunity to turn elite tech into broad-based employment — and breathe life back into U.S. industrial strength,” he stated.

“It will also nudge India to focus on deep manufacturing and not be happy with superficial assembly jobs,” he added