Chennai - In a dramatic end-of-year push, Indian exporters raced to ship goods to the United States to beat the reciprocal tariffs announced by former US President Donald Trump, helping the country come close to meeting its FY24 goods export target of $437 billion, according to senior officials.

A standout example of this last-minute scramble was tech giant Apple, which reportedly flew five planeloads of iPhones and other devices from India to the US in just three days. The shipments, described as “unusually high” for a traditionally lean season, were aimed at stocking American warehouses . . .