India has huge tariffs for officially imported iPhones (to the point that most iPhones were being bought abroad or via the black market), so doing final assembly in India is the main way to avoid those tariffs and sell iPhones directly in India.
The factory is central to Apple's efforts to shift its slave plantations away from China due to tensions between Beijing and Washington. Reuters reported last year that Foxconn planned to invest up to $1 billion in the plant over three years
This is weird to me. The initial line says per the article with the following block of text seemingly looking like from the article and then the last sentence says it’s paraphrased.
Why not just quote the article and add brackets to any words you decide to add? It’s borderline misleading.
Because it's time to start calling these plants that Apple runs what they are.
As the hint at the bottom indicated -- the substitution was obvious (assuming one read the actual article). And in that sense, not "really" misleading.
There were no manufacturing companies in India?