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U.S. President Donald Trump doubled the tariff price charged on merchandise imported into the US from India on Wednesday, however the enhance excludes iPhones produced within the nation.
That’s a significant reduction for Apple, because it shifted manufacturing to India to flee Trump tariffs on merchandise introduced in from China.
The information pushed Apple’s share worth up 5% on Wednesday.
iPhone dodges new Trump tariffs on India
President Trump prices tariffs on all kinds of merchandise produced in Asia after which imported into the US with the acknowledged objective of accelerating manufacturing in America. However there are different targets too — on Wednesday, he doubled the import taxes on India as a result of the nation retains shopping for Russian oil regardless of an embargo supposed to defund the invasion of Ukraine.
That might have been horrible information for Apple. Practically all its iOS handsets offered in the US at the moment are assembled in India, in accordance with a current assertion by CEO Tim Cook dinner. However Trump’s doubling of the India tariff reportedly doesn’t have an effect on Apple as a result of it was already exempt from the earlier tariff.
“I’ve been speaking with White Home officers about this and what I can let you know now could be that the way in which that this government order was written is that the rise to 50% successfully doubles the reciprocal tariffs which can be already set to be at 25%. So as a result of they’re simply doubling it, it means the identical exemptions proceed to stay — semiconductors and all by-product merchandise — will stay exempt from all of these tariffs,” studies CNBC’s Megan Cassella. “So the rise within the India tariff mustn’t impression Apple primarily based on the way in which this government order was written.”
A the time of this writing, at this time’s information had pushed the AAPL share worth up 5.4%.
Trump and Apple and India, oh my!
Apple’s reply to the commerce struggle between China and Trump administration is to maneuver manufacturing to different international locations as a lot as doable.
“The overwhelming majority of the iPhones offered within the U.S. — or the bulk, I ought to say — have a rustic of origin of India,” Tim Cook dinner mentioned in late July. “And the overwhelming majority of the merchandise — different merchandise, the Mac and the iPad and the Watch — have a rustic of origin of Vietnam which can be offered in the US.”
However the technique would fully collapse if Apple needed to begin paying a 50% import tax on iPhones introduced in from India. Therefore the sudden enhance within the worth of APPL shares when it grew to become clear that wouldn’t occur.
To be clear, Apple can’t fully dodge tariffs. It expects $1.1 billion in tariff-related bills this quarter alone.
