{"id":933800,"date":"2025-05-26T07:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933800"},"modified":"2025-05-26T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T02:14:48","slug":"shifting-smartphone-production-a-fairy-tale-say-experts-as-trump-expands-apple-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/26\/shifting-smartphone-production-a-fairy-tale-say-experts-as-trump-expands-apple-tariff-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifting smartphone production a fairy tale, say experts as Trump expands Apple tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Experts have dismissed US President Donald Trump&#8217;s hopes of shifting smartphone production to the United States with the threat of a 25 percent tariff unless their devices are built there as &#8220;a fairytale that&#8217;s not feasible&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Trump had initially said the tariff would apply only to Apple &#8212; an unusual move to single out a specific company in trade policy. However, he later expanded the threat to include all smartphone makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: Experts have dismissed US President Donald Trump&#8217;s hopes of shifting smartphone production to the United States with the threat of a 25 percent tariff unless their devices are built there as &#8220;a fairytale that&#8217;s not feasible&#8221;. Trump had initially said the tariff would apply only to Apple &#8212; an unusual move to single out a specific company in trade policy. However, he later expanded the threat to include all smartphone makers.<\/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-933800","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\/933800","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=933800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}