With iPhones exempt from customs duties, Apple seeds fly away – Liberation

Despite a package of external signs of cronyism-including a nice jackpot paid for the nomination of Donald Trump and back and forth in Mar-A-Lago For his boss, Tim Cook – Apple never intended to trust the American president. The Republican candidate who has never made a great time of his great design of trade war, the leading manufacturer of smartphones in the world (234 million sold in 2024) organized the Resistance in January. China is as much in Trump’s viewfinder as it is vital for Apple, of which the iPhone is the main vector of growth.

Since he took the controllers in 2011, Cook has completely reorganized his supply circuits, betting everything on Asia in general, China in particular where 80 % of its annual phones production is assembled, mainly in Zhengzhou. Nicknamed « iPhone City », the city is home to the world’s largest manufacturing plant in the world: operated by the Taiwanese group Foxconn, it can work up to 350,000 people during peak periods, especially before the holiday season, the equivalent of the city of Nice.

To bypass the announced showdown between Washington and Beijing, the box founded by Steve Jobs organized Mill exfiltration