Overview
- Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw confirmed the milestone, reached by December 2025, with nearly $16 billion shipped in the first nine months of FY26.
- Apple’s India footprint includes five iPhone assembly plants—three operated by Tata Group and two by Foxconn—supported by about 45 component suppliers, many of them MSMEs.
- Driven largely by iPhone shipments, smartphones accounted for roughly 75% of India’s mobile exports and became the country’s top export category in FY25.
- Apple’s performance under the scheme far exceeded Samsung’s, which exported about $17 billion over its FY21–FY25 eligibility window.
- The government reports a sixfold rise in electronics production and an eightfold jump in exports, has cleared 22 new ECMS projects expected to add major output and jobs, and says four semiconductor plants will start commercial production this year.