Apple has rented charging trips to transport 600 tons of iPhone phones, or up to 1.5 million phones, to the United States from India, after it has intensified its production there in an attempt to alleviate the customs duties imposed by US President Donald Trump.
The details of this step provide Apple’s private strategy to deal with customs duties, and to build a stock of great popularity in the United States and is one of its largest markets.
Analysts warn that the prices of iPhone phones in the United States may rise hugely; Due to Apple’s great dependence on imports from China, the main center for devices manufacturing, which is subject to the highest customs duties imposed by Trump and currently reaches 125%.
This percentage exceeds 26% customs duties on imports from India, which has now stopped after Trump announced a 90 -day comment, but he excluded China.
One of the sources familiar with the plan said Apple “wanted to get out of the drawings.”
The source added that the company pressed the authorities of the Chennai Airport in Tamil Nadu, southern India, to reduce the time required to end customs procedures to 6 hours instead of 30 hours.
The source said that the arrangement of the so -called “green corridor” at the airport located at the Indian Manufacturing Center simulates a model that the company uses at some airports in China.
The source and an Indian government official stated that about 6 charging planes, each of which are able to carry 100 tons that have left the country since March, one of them this week, with new customs duties entering into force.
According to the Reuters accounts, the total weight of the iPhone 14 and its shipping cable reaches about 350 grams, which means that the total weight of 600 tons consists of about 1.5 million iPhone, after calculating some of the weighing of the packaging.
Apple and the Indian Ministry of Aviation did not respond to the request for comment. All sources asked not to mention their names; Because of the privacy of the strategy and discussions that took place.
Apple sells more than 220 million iPhone phones annually around the world, and the estimates of the company “Countelboint Research” indicate that about 20% of the total iPhone imports to the United States now come from India, while the remaining imports come from China.
Trump is constantly raising the American fees imposed on China, and on Wednesday reached 125%, after it was 54% in a previous round of imposing fees.
Accounts on the expectations of “Rosenblat Skorites” investment show that the price of the most expensive iPhone 16 Pro Max in the United States would have risen from 1599 dollars to $ 2300 when the percentage of fees imposed on China was 54%.
