Saturday, 19 April 2025

Apple Tries To Get Around Tariffs By Flying, Will iPhone Price Now Skyrocket?

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Hey Apple, whatcha doin with those planes?

Looks like they’re trying to get around the tariffs. Does that mean they won’t increase the price on their items?

Something tells me the answer is ‘no’.

So Apple loaded up 5 planes full of iPhones and had them leave India, rather than China.

They’re also trying to pump up a false scarcity story:

Tariffs will raise the price on iPhones.

But do we really need a new iPhone every couple months? What’s the upside? 4 more cameras on the back? When is enough enough?

That’s why I stick with the classic BlackBerry. Opt out of Keeping Up With the Joneses, Gadget Edition.

Post Millennial reports:

Apple moved five cargo planes filled with iPhones and other devices from India to the United States in just three days in a last-minute effort to avoid a 10 percent tariff imposed by President Donald Trump that took effect on April 5.

According to a report from the Times of India, Apple transported the devices during the last week in March. Sources close to the matter said Apple does not currently plan to raise retail prices in the US despite the new tariffs.

The tech company has moved inventory from manufacturing centers in India and China to mitigate the impact of the tariffs despite this time being a typically slow shipping season. By stockpiling products in US warehouses, Apple aims to maintain current pricing for the time being.

“Factories in India and China and other key locations had been shipping products to the US in anticipation of the higher tariffs,” one source told the outlet. “The reserves that arrived at lower duty will temporarily insulate the company from the higher prices that it will need to pay for new shipments under the revised tax rates.”

Apple’s US warehouses are reportedly stocked with enough inventory to last several months.

While the majority of Apple products are manufactured in India, China, and Vietnam, India may play a larger role in Apple’s future production due to it facing the lowest tariffs of the three under the Trump administration’s new trade rules. Apple is expected to continue shifting manufacturing away from China and toward India as a result.

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In the days since Trump’s “liberation day” announcement, at least 10 flights have taken off from Chennai International Airport, according to three Indian officials with knowledge of the matter.

Apple is relying on deepening its relationship with India to help it counter the immediate impact of the US President’s aggressive China tariffs, after it failed to get a last-minute exemption from Washington’s 104 per cent levy (it’s now 125%. Try to keep up, Financial Times) on the country that came into effect on Wednesday.

Two Indian officials told the Financial Times that the US tech giant was looking at further investment into the country. “Apple is definitely thinking of doing more in India,” said one official. Apple declined to comment.

Apple has been one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties of the US president’s tariff blitz — losing about $700bn in market value since last week’s announcements — highlighting the dilemma the group faces, having built its business around advanced manufacturing in China.

No amount of fearmongering from the press will stop what we’re seeing. And what we’re seeing is companies returning to America.

Meaning money is returning. Meaning prosperity. The exact opposite of what the one world government cult wants. They need us destroyed in order to move forward with their plans.

Too bad. The Book of Revelation isn’t going to happen according to their day planners, just because that book is their Christmas wish list. It only starts when God says so. And it isn’t time.

Ps. Does that headline photo take you back to 2008?

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