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Foxconn to assemble top-end iPhones in India from 2019

Widening production beyond China seen as critical amid trade war risks

Assembling the iPhone X in India may help Apple to get a bigger share of the world's fastest growing major mobile phone market. (Photo by Maho Obata)

MUMBAI/DELHI (Reuters) -- Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the country, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Importantly, Foxconn will be assembling the most expensive models, such as devices in the flagship iPhone X family, the source said, potentially taking Apple's business in India to a new level.

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