IPhone shipments from Foxconn India to US for a value of $ 4.4 billion in Jan-Mayo compared to $ 3.7 billion for all or 2024.
Almost all iPhones exported by Foxconn of India went to the United States between March and May, according to customs data, well above the average of 2024 or 50 percent and a clear sign of Apple’s efforts to ignore China.
The numbers, being reported by Reuters For the first time, Show Apple has realized its exports from India for an almost exclusive service of the US market, when previously the devices were distributed more widely to countries, including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Great Britain.
Duration March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth $ 3.2 billion of India, with an average of 97 percent sent to the United States, compared to an average of 2024 of 50.3 percent, according to customs data of commercial numbers seen by Reuters.
India iPhone shipments by Foxconn to the United States in May 2025 were Werth almost $ 1 billion, the second highest of all record devices of $ 1.3 billion sent in March, according to the data.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday that China will face tariffs of 55 percent after the two countries agreed a plan, subject to the approval of both leaders, to relieve the taxes that the triples had reached.
India is subject, like most of the US business partners, at a base rate of 10 percent and is trying to negotiate an agreement to avoid a “reciprocal” tax of the 26 percent that Trump announced and then stopped in April.
The increase in Apple’s production in India caused a strong Trump reprimand in May. “We are not interested in its construction in India, India can take care of me in a way, they are doing very well, we want you to build here,” Trump recalled Tim Cook.
In the first five months of this year, Foxconn has already sent iPhones worth $ 4.4 billion to the United States from India, compared to $ 3.7 billion throughout 2024.
Apple has been taking measures to accelerate the production of India to avoid tariffs, which would make the phones be sent from China to the United States much more expectations. In March, he rented the airplanes to transport models of the iPhone 13, 14, 16 and 16 worth approximately $ 2 billion to the United States.
Apple has also pressed to the Indian airport authorities to reduce the necessary time to clean customs at Chennai airport in the southern state of Tamil Nadu from 30 hours to six hours, Reuters He has reported. The airport is a key center for iPhone exports.
“We hope that the iPhones made in India represent 25 percent to 30 percent or global shipments for iPhone in 2025, compared to 18 percent in 2024,” said Prachir Singh, a senior analyst at Counterpoint Research.
Tata Electronics, the other smaller Apple iPhone supplier in India, on average, sent almost 86 percent of its iPhone production to the duration of the USA. UU., Customs data, as shown by customs data. His May data were not available.
The company, part of the Tata Group of India, began exporting iPhones only in July 2024, and only 52 percent of its shipments are customary to the duration of the USA. UU. 2024, according to the data.
Tata declined to comment on the numbers.
The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, in recent years promised India as a smartphone manufacturing center, but high tariffs in the importation of mobile phone components compared to many other countries, it means that it is still expensive to produce devices in India.
Historically, Apple has sold more than 60 million iPhones in the United States every year, with approximately 80 percent made in China.