{"id":25206,"date":"2025-04-02T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25206"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:25:01","slug":"trumps-new-tariffs-test-apples-global-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25206","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s New Tariffs Test Apple\u2019s Global Supply Chain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs. But now that may not matter.<\/p>\n

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When President Trump first pushed tariffs on China in 2018, Apple began moving more production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India.<\/p>\n

But with Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House, that strategy may have backfired for the world\u2019s most valuable publicly traded company.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that the United States would put tariffs of 46 percent on Vietnam and 26 percent on India. The White House has said the tariffs are effective immediately, but some trade experts consider them to be preliminary and designed to be a starting point for negotiations to reduce overseas tariffs.<\/p>\n

The proposed tariffs threaten to compound the pressure on Apple\u2019s business. The company is already dealing with 20 percent tariffs on products imported from China, where Apple makes about 90 percent of the iPhones it sells around the world. Mr. Trump said that the rate would go to 34 percent under his new tariff plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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An Apple spokesman declined to comment.<\/p>\n

The new levies are part of Mr. Trump\u2019s efforts to remake world trade with tariffs on every country that imposes fees on American exports. U.S. trade officials estimate that India has a tariff rate of 13.5 percent<\/a> on U.S. goods, with a 39 percent tariff on agricultural products. Vietnam has a tariff rate of 8.1 percent on U.S. goods, with a 17.1 percent tariff on agricultural products.<\/p>\n

But during a news conference at the White House, Mr. Trump said the combination of tariffs, currency manipulation and trade barriers had a much more significant impact.<\/p>\n

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The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs. But now that may not matter.When President Trump first pushed tariffs on China in 2018, Apple began moving more production of iPads and AirPods to Vietnam and iPhones to India.But with Mr. Trump\u2019s return to the White House, that strategy may have backfired for the world\u2019s most valuable publicly traded company.On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that the United States would put tariffs of 46 percent on Vietnam and 26 percent on India. The White House has said the tariffs are effective immediately, but some trade experts consider them to be preliminary and designed to be a starting point for negotiations to reduce overseas tariffs.The proposed tariffs threaten to compound the pressure on Apple\u2019s business. The company is already dealing with 20 percent tariffs on products imported from China, where Apple makes about 90 percent of the iPhones it sells around the world. Mr. Trump said that the rate would go to 34 percent under his new tariff plan.An Apple spokesman declined to comment.The new levies are part of Mr. Trump\u2019s efforts to remake world trade with tariffs on every country that imposes fees on American exports. U.S. trade officials estimate that India has a tariff rate of 13.5 percent on U.S. goods, with a 39 percent tariff on agricultural products. Vietnam has a tariff rate of 8.1 percent on U.S. goods, with a 17.1 percent tariff on agricultural products.But during a news conference at the White House, Mr. Trump said the combination of tariffs, currency manipulation and trade barriers had a much more significant impact.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25208,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25209,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25206\/revisions\/25209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}