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Looks like they have moved 7% of assembly to India, up from 1% about a year ago, with manufacturing moving to a plant in Karnataka as well.

I wonder what the value add in India is.

Aren't they legally obliged to build product there if they want to sell it in India?

They would have import tariffs slapped on them, as with any other country. It's just that the tariffs are high

It’s not China

Cheaper, large workforce, not China, large consumer base.

Downvotes for that?

Okay, let me rephrase that. How much value is added to the phones in India?

With manufacturing, almost all of it.

My understanding is that from the article, assembly was being done, not complete manufacturing. Which means that many of the components are imported components that are being assembled.

Parts from one country may get transported to another country to be built into a component, and returned to the original country for further assembly.

So it would be interesting to learn what the value of the individual components imported in is, and how much value is added by Indian made components and during India assembly and by Foxconn and Wistron.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/tech/india-apple-iphone-manuf...

Assembly is fine to start out with, but to bring more of the value add, one would need to build out an entire ecosystem of factories building the components.

As of now not much. But existing apple suppliers(mostly Chinese) are in process of setting up manufacturing in India. https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apple-gets...

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks

From the article akmittal posted at https://telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/apple-gets...

>> The local value addition in iPhone manufacturing is currently around 18%, and with the partners coming in, that could likely go up to 50%

There is plan to have 25% of assembly by 2025. Foxconn is building atleast 2 plants and Winston is also expanding.

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