India Becoming Big Manufacturing Hub for Apple, Company Assembles More than Rs 1,89,000 Crore Worth of iPhones in Country, Jolt for China

American devices maker Apple has manufactured iPhones worth $ 22 billion (about Rs 1,89,412 crore) in the last financial year in the country. This is an increase of about 60 percent in the assembling of iPhones in India as compared to the previous financial year. This is indicating the company’s plan to shift some part of manufacturing from China.

Bloomberg’s report quoted sources who are aware of the company as saying that about 20 percent of the total manufacturing of iPhones are happening in India. This shows that Apple and its suppliers are strengthening their position in the country. Apple’s largest manufacturing plant in China had a major impact due to lockdown during Corona. The company then planned to shift some part of its manufacturing from China.

The most assembling of iPhones in India is in the factory of Apple’s contract manufacturer FoxConn. Apart from this, Tata Group’s electronics manufacturing unit also assembles iPhones. Apple did not answer the request sent for comment about this. In the last financial year, the iPhone stake in the export of smartphones from the country was about Rs 1.5 lakh crore. Foxconn of Taiwan had assembled about 1.2 million iPhones in the country last year. This year, Foxconn plans to assemble about three million units of iPhone.

In this year’s budget, Foxconn can benefit from the announcement of tax exemption on the import of smartphone parts. Apple plans to start manufacturing of Airpods, MacBook and iPad in the country. There is a preparation to start manufacturing airpods for export at Foxconn’s Hyderabad plant. Apple has recently sent about 1.5 million iPhones from India through chartered cargo flights from India to avoid tariffs imposed on many countries by US President Donald Trump. The weight of these iPhones is 600 tonnes. America is one of the big markets for the company.