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 invests $1.5B to expand iPhone production in India, adding dorms for 30,000 workers, aiming to make 25M–30M iPhones in 2025 despite U.S. pushback.