India has also become the world’s second-largest smartphone market after China, measured by volume. The production increase by Apple’s suppliers Foxconn and Tata Electronics in southern India has been the biggest success of Modi’s “Make in India” drive to create more manufacturing jobs in the world’s most populous country.

This comes despite Trump asking Apple’s Cook to halt production in India and instead shift base to the United States.

Foxconn is significantly expanding its Indian operations with a fresh $1.5 billion investment, channeled through its Singapore-based arm into Yuzhan T