President Trump on Sunday denied engineering a stock market sell-off, and likened the pain of re-ordering the global economy to taking medicine for an illness.
REPORTER: Is there pain in the market at some point you're unwilling to tolerate? TRUMP: I think your question is so stupid. I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
-- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) April 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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How Apple 'flew' 5 flights full of iPhones from India and China in 3 days to beat Trump Tariffs
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
... Apple transported five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days during the final week of March, a senior Indian officials confirmed to The Times of India. The urgent shipments were made to avoid a new 10% reciprocal tariff imposed by US President Donald Trump's administration that took effect on April 5. Sources said that Apple currently has no plans to increase retail prices in India or other markets despite the tariffs.
To mitigate the impact, the company rapidly moved inventory from manufacturing centres in India and China to the US, even though this period is typically a slow shipping season.
"Factories in India and China and other key locations had been shipping products to the US in anticipation of the higher tariffs," according to one source. ...
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