Apple's main India suppliers Foxconn and Tata shipped nearly $2 billion worth of iPhones to the United States in March, an all-time high, as the U.S. company airlifted devices to bypass President Donald Trump's impending tariffs,

In the final week of March, five cargo planes departed India in quick succession. Their payload? Thousands of freshly manufactured iPhones, bound for warehouses across the United States. The urgency was unmistakable as Apple was racing against the clock for an unusual logistical operation that was completed in just three days.