Donald Trump announces that if the iPhone is not produced in the United States, it will be subject to high customs duties, which should increase its price worldwide.
Donald Trump continues to put pressure on Apple. The President of the United States is threatening to impose tariffs of "at least 25% on the iPhone" if the company doesn't move smartphone production to the United States. If such a measure were taken, iPhone prices are expected to rise significantly, not only in the United States but also worldwide, particularly in Europe. Manufacturers have been found to tend to pass on the effects of customs barriers across the Atlantic to other markets, particularly in the West, and it is likely that Apple will end up making us pay for Trump's decision.
“I informed Apple's Tim Cook a long time ago that I expected iPhones sold in the US to be made in the US, not in India or elsewhere. If this is not the case, Apple will have to pay at least 25% in customs duties in the US. Thank you for your attention!”, he posted on his social network Truth Social.
Concerns about the price of the iPhone
Many tech companies have withdrawn part of their production lines from China to avoid the consequences of the trade war between the country and the United States. Vietnam and India are among the new trendy destinations for industry players. For Donald Trump, this situation represents a failure, the objective being to repatriate factories to the United States, and not to see them spring up like mushrooms in other Southeast Asian countries.
Tim Cook recently indicated that the majority of iPhones sold in the United States would now be produced in India, avoiding customs duties amounting to 145%, which had been decided by the Trump administration at the time, and which have been suspended for the time being.
Donald Trump is giving Apple an ultimatum here... without giving it a date or specific conditions to meet. Would he be satisfied with a simple promise to relocate production to the United States? How will Apple react to this announcement? We will have the answer in a future episode of “Donald Trump and the customs duties”.
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