China's March shipments of foreign-branded cellphones drop almost 50%

May 12, 2025 6:36 AM EDT

FILE PHOTO: People look at the new iPhone 15 as Apple's new iPhone 15 officially goes on sale across China, at an Apple store in Shanghai, China September 22, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo

BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese shipments of foreign-branded cellphones, including Apple Inc's iPhones, dropped by 49.6% year on year in March, according to data released on Monday by a government-affiliated research company.

Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed that March shipments of foreign-branded phones in China decreased to 1.887 million units from 3.747 million a year earlier.

(Reporting by Beijing NewsroomEditing by David Goodman)



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