Despite repeated threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to stop manufacturing in India, Apple Inc. is doubling down on its Indian manufacturing ambitions. The company is not only expanding iPhone assembly lines in India, but now also increasing the localisation of the production of specialised machinery critical to the process.

The move comes despite Trump’s repeated pressure on Apple CEO Tim Cook to shift production back to the U.S. from India, including threats of a 25% tariff on iPhones not made domestically. In May, Trump publicly warned that iPhones sold in the U.S. should be “manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,” or face steep penalties.

Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on Indian imports in retaliation for India’s Russian oil purchases. However,

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