{"id":940476,"date":"2025-06-21T11:39:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940476"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T06:09:22","slug":"foxconn-to-make-new-component-for-iphones-in-india-that-has-so-far-been-tata-electronics-exclusive-locally-what-makes-it-important-after-trumps-25-tariff-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/21\/foxconn-to-make-new-component-for-iphones-in-india-that-has-so-far-been-tata-electronics-exclusive-locally-what-makes-it-important-after-trumps-25-tariff-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn to make &#8216;new component&#8217; for iPhones in India that has so far been Tata Electronics&#8217; &#8216;exclusive&#8217; locally: What makes it important after Trump&#8217;s 25% Tariff threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple supplier Foxconn is preparing to produce iPhone metal casings in India for the first time, breaking Tata Electronics&#8217; exclusive hold on this component manufacturing locally. The move comes as Apple deepens its Indian operations amid President Trump&#8217;s recent threat of 25% tariffs on iPhones not manufactured in the United States.According to The Economic Times, Foxconn is establishing a dedicated unit at ESR Industrial Park in Oragadam, Tamil Nadu, specifically for iPhone enclosure production. Until now, the company&#8217;s Indian operations focused primarily on iPhone assembly at its Sriperumbudur facility, along with AirPods assembly in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple supplier Foxconn is preparing to produce iPhone metal casings in India for the first time, breaking Tata Electronics&#8217; exclusive hold on this component manufacturing locally. The move comes as Apple deepens its Indian operations amid President Trump&#8217;s recent threat of 25% tariffs on iPhones not manufactured in the United States.According to The Economic Times, Foxconn is establishing a dedicated unit at ESR Industrial Park in Oragadam, Tamil Nadu, specifically for iPhone enclosure production. Until now, the company&#8217;s Indian operations focused primarily on iPhone assembly at its Sriperumbudur facility, along with AirPods assembly in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,88,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940476","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}