chartar 600 tons of iphone from India, according to Reuters

Two days ago The Times of India indicated that Apple had chartered iPhone full flights from India Towards the US. The goal was none other than mitigating the impact of the tariffs announced by Donald Trump, which were activated days later. Now It is Reuters who affirms the same And it gives some more data. For example, there were not five flights, but six.

600 tons of iPhone by plane. According to Reuters, Apple sources hired several Charter flights to send 600 tons of iPhone from India to the United States. Before doing so, it also increased the production of these smartphones to be able to send them urgently and thus be able to mitigate the tariffs of President Donald Trump.

1.5 million more phones in its inventory. Those 600 tons are equivalent according to Reuters to 1.5 million iPhone, an especially striking figure. According to Reuters “about six cargo planes with a capacity of 100 tons each have flown since March, and one of them did this week just when the tariffs were activated.”

Manufacturing even Sundays. In Reuters they also indicate that Apple accelerated the iPhone production in India in 20%. To do this, he added workers and also extended the most important Foxconn factory operation in India so that there was no rest any day: the workers also worked on Sunday. Two “direct sources” confirmed that the Foxconn factory in Chennai is working on Sunday, which is normally a party.

They are not so many. According to estimates Business of AppsApple sold 100.4 million iPhone in 2024 in the American continent. Our estimates according to Apple’s fiscal results place quarterly sales in the US in 2024 between 18 and 28 million.

Although the iPhone is a product whose sales vary significantly according to the time, we can ignore that data and establish that every month average more than 8 million mobiles. Those 1.5 million are an undoubtedly striking figure, but they do not suppose so much for total Apple sales. Even so, they would have helped mitigate the impact of tariffs, which in the case of India is 26% although now They have been temporarily deactivated By the truce announced surprise by Trump a few hours ago.

You can see the touch of cook. Yeah Tim cook is distinguished for something It is for its domain of the supply chain and its search for optimization (economic also) and efficiency in these processes. If what they indicate in Reuters is true, he was probably the one who made the decision to accelerate the production of iPhones in India and then send them in a hurry by plane to the US to get ahead of the tariffs.

The strategy had been in preparation for months. A source from the government of India indicated how Apple really had been preparing the land for eight months so that its orders quickly passed through customs in Chennai. Even the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked those responsible for this area to support Apple with those shipments, they indicate in Reuters. Cook met with Modi in April 2023 with the aim of promoting the manufacture of its iPhone in this country.

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