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.

Apples top supplier, Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry, TW:2317), is pushing forward with a major expansion in India, despite calls from U.S. President Donald Trump for Apple to return manufacturing to the United

Foxconn, a primary partner of Apple in manufacturing iPhones and other gadgets, has announced the investment of INR 12,800 crore in India. This was declared in a Taiwan Stock Exchange filing. Foxconn's Singapore based subsidiary will be injecting these funds into the Indian company,