Apple rapidly shipped five planeloads of iPhones and other products from India to the US in late March to avoid new tariffs, ensuring steady prices temporarily. This pre-tariff move helps delay global price revisions. Other exports like gems and jewellery also surged to capitalize before the tariffs took effect. March exports are estimated to surpass $800 billion.
    • Jesus
      7•4 months ago

      This is like a couple weeks of phones sales. Makes me think that the author is just speculating that this is tariff related. This might just be a normal shipment.

  • Jesus
    4•4 months ago

    Using dumb LLMs, 5 plane loads is probably under 2million phones.

    Given the amount of phones Apple sells in the US, this is probably just another Tuesday for them. They sell 60m phones in the US each year.

    • @ramble81@lemm.ee
      6•4 months ago

      You just contradicted yourself with the math there.

      60m phones per year is 164k/day (not a single Tuesday of 2m phones)

      This works out to roughly two weeks of stock. So do they think it’ll be short lived or was that all that was available at the time?

  • @smitty825@lemmy.world
    1•4 months ago

    Also, the tariffs don’t apply to items packed on boats by midnight eastern time. Those products have until May 27 to arrive in the US and not be taxed.

    So, it’s possible Apple flew a bunch of phones over and stuffed a bunch of boats full of iPhones. Granted, they’d need a place to store them and distribute them.