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Apple has asked suppliers to ensure that shipments from Taiwan to China comply with the latter's customs regulations to avoid them from being held for scrutiny, according to a Nikkei report on Friday.Sino-US trade tensions have escalated following US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a congressional delegation's visit to Taiwan.The iPhone maker told suppliers that China had started enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as made either in "Taiwan, China" or…

Taiwan-based electronics manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron are among companies eyeing new factories in Mexico, people with direct knowledge of the matter said, as the US-China trade war and coronavirus pandemic prompt firms to reexamine global supply chains.The plans could usher in billions of dollars in badly needed fresh investments over the next few years for Latin America's second-largest economy, which is primed for its worst recession since the 1930s Great Depression.Foxconn and Pegatron are known as contractors…

Taipei, Leading iPhone manufacturer Foxconn on Tuesday said that despite the global macro-economic factors affecting businesses worldwide, it will have a better than expected full-year performance as supply chain improves in China which is facing Covid lockdowns.In a shareholders' meeting at the company's headquarters in New Taipei City, Young Liu, chairman of Foxconn, raised the company's outlook for the current quarter and the full year, reports Nikkei Asia."We previously forecast this year we would maintain a similar…

Apple has told its suppliers to speed up iPhone development after China's strict COVID-19 lockdowns hampered schedule for at least one of the new phones, Nikkei reported on Wednesday, citing multiple sources with knowledge of the matter.Lockdowns due to China's zero-COVID policy led iPhone assembler Pegatron to suspend operations at its Shanghai and Kunshan plants last month.Financial hub Shanghai remains largely paralysed by a city-wide lockdown, which is now in its seventh week, while Beijing has ramped up quarantine…

The emergence of covid 19 and the subsequent lockdowns have been impacting the production and the supply chain which has its origin in China and Apple iPhones have been one of the victims. Apple iPhones have been majorly developed in China but the lockdowns has restricted the production and hence supplies of the iPhones in the region and where its being exported out of China. To cover the losses, Apple has asked its other contract manufacturers to ramp up production to meet the…

Three of China's largest smartphone brands have opened discussions with Indian manufacturers about making phones locally for global export, a concrete step toward establishing the country as a hub for electronics production.Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo are holding talks with Indian contract phonemakers, hoping to take advantage of cash incentives readily available to local firms, people familiar with the matter said. If they go ahead, the plan is to get Lava International. and Dixon Technologies to assemble the phones and begin…

iPhone 13 — Apple's latest smartphone generation announced last September — will now be manufactured in India, the company announced on Monday. The announcement comes months after trial production for the handset began at the company's manufacturing partner Foxconn in India last year. It will join the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 that are currently manufactured in India. Last year, the company was one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in India, with a 108 percent year-on-year growth in shipments and a 44 percent share…

Taiwan's Pegatron Corporation, which assembles iPhones for Apple, said on Tuesday it had suspended operations at its Shanghai and Kunshan plants in China due to the government's strict COVID-19 protocols.China has put Shanghai under a tight lockdown since late March and neighbouring Kunshan has also tightened curbs to control the country's biggest COVID-19 outbreak since the coronavirus was discovered in late 2019 in the city of Wuhan.Global companies, from phone to chip makers, are highly dependent on China and Southeast…

Apple's prime supplier Foxconn Technology Group halted operations at two of its factories in eastern China's Kunshan after new COVID-19 cases were reported on site, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday.The operations at those plants have been suspended since Wednesday last week, with all employees confined to dormitories inside, the report said.The two Foxconn plants, located at Dianfa and Fuhong in the northern part of Kunshan, are two of four manufacturing campuses operated in the city by the Taiwanese firm,…

Shipments of some Apple products, as well as Dell and Lenovo laptops are likely to face delays if China's COVID-19 lockdowns persist, analysts said, as curbs force assemblers to shut down and closed-loop arrangements get harder to maintain.China's race to stop the spread of COVID-19 has jammed highways and ports, stranded workers and left countless factories awaiting government approval to reopen - disruptions that are rippling through global supply chains.Apple supplier Pegatron said this week it would suspend its plants…