Tariff? Long arm of Trump law may not pluck Apple off India

Apple Inc is unlikely to alter its India plans despite US President Donald Trump‘s incessant jibes at its manufacturing footprint in the country, experts told ET. They said “better sense would prevail,” and that Trump was using the Cupertino-based firm as a bargaining chip to pressurise India into sweetening a proposed bilateral trade pact.

Trump on Friday said Apple will have to pay a 25% tariff if phones sold in the US are not made locally. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect iPhones that will be sold in the United States of…