US President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that high prices will be applied to imports from many countries, from April 9. The prices could have a significant impact on Apple, while the company assembles the majority of iphones in China, and products imported into the United States of China will be subject to a rate of 54%.
The prices of the iPhone could increase up to 43% in the United States due to prices, according to analysts of the Rosenblatt Securities Research Company (via Reuters).
Based on this prediction, the high-end iPhone 16 Pro Max model with 1 TB of storage could go from $ 1,599 to almost $ 2,300 in the United States, if Apple really followed the price increase of 43% to compensate for the cost of prices.
At the other end of the iPhone range, the most affordable iPhone 16th model would drop from $ 599 to just over $ 850 with a price increase of 43%.
An iPhone 16 pro with 256 GB of storage could drop from $ 999 to more than $ 1,400.
Apple is expected to increase its prices by at least 30% on average, in order to compensate for the prices, according to Neil Shah from Counterpoint Research.
Apple has not yet publicly commented on the prices, it is therefore not clear if the company will actually increase prices, or if it will be creative and will find alternative means to compensate for the impact. It is not difficult to know if the iPhone 16 models would increase the price, or if Apple simply fixed higher prices on the iPhone 17 models from the start later this year.
Apple’s share price has dropped by almost 15% since Trump announced the planned prices.
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