President Donald Trump has threatened Apple and Samsung with 25 per cent tariffs on their devices unless the companies shift production to the US.
The potential levy escalates the president’s stand-off with the Apple chief executive Tim Cook, who said this month that Indian factories would supply the “majority” of iPhones sold in the US in the coming months, as the tech group tries to avoid the tariffs on Chinese-made goods imposed by Trump as part of his trade war.
“I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday.
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