Is Apple launching 'Made in India' iPhones?
By MYBRANDBOOK
According to reports, Apple is planning to begin assembling its high end handsets at a Foxconn plant in Tamil Nadu.
Foxconn will start assembling some of the more recent iPhone X series devices at its plant in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, in southern India. Since Foxconn is currently producing the Xiaomi phones at this factory, the company is planning a new $356 million iPhone production that will create about 25,000 jobs.
Apple's plans to manufacture in India were rejected by the Indian government in 2017, due to Apple’s demands for duty exemption and a relaxation of the 30% mandatory local component sourcing requirement.
Coupled with the trade war between the U.S. and China and the ban on some iPhones in China, Apple appears to view India as the next possible growth market. It already sells the iPhone 6S and 6E in India, made by Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron in Bengaluru. But since its higher end phones are mainly imported, the high handset cost makes it unattractive for a cost-conscious market. Hence the company appears to be lobbying to obtain tax concessions and incentives from the government so that it can assemble phones locally and reduce the end-user cost for the Indian domestic market.
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