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The White House has imposed an additional 25% tariff on imports from India, citing India's purchase of Russian oil amid the war in Ukraine. The increase brings the total tariff rate to 50% for India.
India is the largest manufacturing country for Apple's (AAPL 210.54, +7.62, +3.8%) iPhone and the executive order gave no mention of an exemption for Apple.
Apple posts the second-widest gains within the information technology sector (+0.5%), with Arista Networks (ANET 136.78, +18.66, +15.8%) claiming the top spot after reaching a new all-time high following an EPS beat of $0.08 and guiding Q3 revenues above consensus.