Apple plans to move 10% of its global manufacturing to India in 5 yrs

Move will help the company shift production from China, where around 95 per cent of its mobiles are currently manufactured

Surajeet Das Gupta | New Delhi Last Updated at August 3, 2020 06:38 IST

Apple Inc. is expected to manufacture mobile phones in India, with an incremental production value of a $29 billion in the next five years, mostly for the export market. This is based on eligibility under the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme, which closed on July 31.

The move will help the company shift production from China, where around 95 per cent of its mobiles are currently manufactured, say analysts. They point out that India could constitute around 10 per cent of Apple’s global production at the end of five years because, if things go well, the production value ...

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Apple plans to move 10% of its global manufacturing to India in 5 yrs

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