ref=”dofollow” data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/topic/apple” target=”_blank”>Apple Inc is unlikely to alter its India plans despite US President data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” target=”_blank” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/panache/panache-people-101/donald-trump/profileshow/79057526.cms”>Donald Trump‘s incessant jibes at its manufacturing footprint in the country, experts told ET. They said “better sense would prevail,” and that Trump was using the Cupertino-based firm as a bargaining chip to pressurise India into sweetening a proposed bilateral trade pact.
Trump on Friday said Apple will have to data-ga-onclick=”Inarticle articleshow link click#Tech#href” href=”https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/donald-trump-threatens-25-tariff-on-apple-if-iphones-are-built-in-india-not-us/articleshow/121363193.cms” data-type=”tilCustomLink” target=”_blank”>pay a 25% tariff if phones sold in the US are not made locally. “I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect iPhones that will be sold in the United States of…
