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India will welcome Apple if it wants to make its iconic iPhones in the country, Union Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Saturday.
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Pointing out that he would soon be meeting top officials of the US-based firm to discuss its plans to make its mobile phones in India, Prasad said as India was a huge market, making in India for the domestic and export markets was important.
The tech giant has already been exempted from sourcing components locally and recent retail guidelines have paved the way for original Apple Stores to be set up in the country.
Apple hopes to roll-out full-fledged manufacturing of iPhones in India from 2018, after the assembly phase takes off.
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