Updated On: 23 May, 2025 07:26 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
In a social media post on his Truth Social, US President Donald Trump wrote, "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”

Earlier on May 15, while speaking in Doha, Donald Trump said he had spoken with Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and asked him to limit the company’s expansion in India. File pic
United States (US) President Donald Trump on Friday again sought to put pressure on telecom giant Apple over its decision to increase production of its iPhone in India, news agency ANI reported.
The President said that Apple will have to pay a 25 per cent import tariffs if its mobile handsets sold in US are not produced in the boundaries of the country.