Apple is “struggling to clear jammed shipments” at the Indian port of Chennai after the country stepped up scrutiny of imports from China following mounting tensions between the two nations.
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Reuters reports that customs officials at the South Indian port have withheld more than 150 shipments of smartphones and electronic parts from China, disrupting operations at plants owned by Apple provider Foxconn.
While several companies like Apple and Dell have been struggling to clear jammed shipments, hundreds of employees at Taiwanese contract maker Foxconn’s two plants in the south did not have a major job to do this week because shipments were delayed, they said. the sources.
Some of the shipments are dispatched slowly, depending on Reuters‘sources, but the delay has left Foxconn in a “very bad state”, causing many workers to stay in their bedrooms for lack of work.
The additional controls, which were apparently imposed without any formal order, follow deadly clashes between Chinese and Indian soldiers on the disputed Himalayan border last month, prompting boycotts and protests.
With growing concern that shipping delays are affecting companies that have already been disrupted by the global health crisis, prominent lobbyists from the United States and India and local industry agencies have urged the Indian government to intervene. . Indian government officials said additional clearance measures for shipments from China would be temporary.
China’s Commerce Ministry said on Thursday it expected India to “correct its discriminatory actions against Chinese companies immediately,” after India banned some Chinese mobile applications amid the border crisis.
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