Trump tariffs make India Apple of iPhone eye as 1.5 million devices airlifted to US

Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or 1.5 million of the devices, to the US from India after stepping up production in this country to try and get around President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

Analysts have warned that US prices of iPhones could surge given Apple’s high reliance on imports from China, the chief manufacturing hub of the smartphones, which is subject to Trump’s highest tariff rate of 125 per cent.