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Apple’s trying to build more iPhones in India, but China isn’t cooperating: report


Apple is reportedly trying to move significant portions of its iPhone product assembly outside China, but the country isn’t cooperating.

Today, a new report details the company’s plans to shift more of its supply chain to India, and the ways China is complicating those efforts. Once the equipment reached the Southeast Asian country, it went to a factory in India operated by Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that builds most of Apple’s iPhones in China, the people said. Foxconn has seen approval times from Chinese authorities for exporting iPhone-making equipment from its China factories to those in India rise from two weeks to as long as four months, one of the people said.

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