{"id":933798,"date":"2025-05-26T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933798"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:14:22","slug":"why-apple-is-expanding-iphone-production-in-india-despite-trumps-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/26\/why-apple-is-expanding-iphone-production-in-india-despite-trumps-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Apple is expanding iPhone production in India despite Trump\u2019s objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Apple\u2019s contract manufacturer for iPhone production, Hon Hai Precision Industry Company\u2014better known as Foxconn\u2014announced earlier this week that it is moving forward with a $1.5 billion display module plant in India. The announcement, made through an exchange filing at the London Stock Exchange, came just a few days after former US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Apple\u2019s strategy to expand iPhone production outside the US. He later proposed a 25% tariff on iPhones manufactured abroad\u2014a move that appears more transactional than practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI: Apple\u2019s contract manufacturer for iPhone production, Hon Hai Precision Industry Company\u2014better known as Foxconn\u2014announced earlier this week that it is moving forward with a $1.5 billion display module plant in India. The announcement, made through an exchange filing at the London Stock Exchange, came just a few days after former US President Donald Trump publicly criticised Apple\u2019s strategy to expand iPhone production outside the US. He later proposed a 25% tariff on iPhones manufactured abroad\u2014a move that appears more transactional than practical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}