Officials in the report emphasised that India’s workforce is capable of filling the gap, with plans reportedly underway for hiring between 500 and 1,000 local employees in the coming weeks

Apple is one of those companies, having started shifting part of its iPhone production to India four years ago. However, Foxconn, the company that makes most of Apple's devices, has done something that may put this diversification strategy in peril,

Apple’s biggest assembly partner, Foxconn, has ordered more than 300 of its Chinese employees to return home from its iPhone factories in India, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources.