Alongside its emergency importing of iPhones before tariffs hugely increased costs, Apple is now said to have also had Macs airlifted into the US.
A pallet of iPhones being loaded onto a plane in 2024 — image credit SDI Logistics
With the extra China tariff now in force, Apple is currently required to pay 104% on top of the import cost. Even before this increase, and even before Trump announced his initial tariffs, Apple took steps to minimize the hit it expected to face.
That was said to consist of stockpiling iPhones, having five flights full of them head for the States ahead of Trump’s deadline. Now according to Nikkei Asia, Apple was far from the sole technology company doing this — and it wasn’t only importing iPhones.