Apple delays end as it agrees to share India finance

Apple agrees – Apple has agreed to supply the financial details the Competition Commission of India (CCI) needs to calculate a fine tied to its antitrust appeal, ending a standoff that had dragged into delays and court fights. The company negotiated one last extension—until

For months, the center of Apple’s antitrust fight in India hasn’t been a dispute over conduct—it’s been a dispute over numbers.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) was set to decide a fine after a 2024 ruling. and Apple’s appeal has followed. But the case turned protracted when Apple resisted surrendering the financial details the CCI says it needs to calculate the penalty. Apple has now agreed to provide the information it had tried to withhold.

Apple’s climb-down comes with one final concession to its side of the timeline: it negotiated what it called a “final extension” until June 25, 2026. The CCI granted that extension.

The deadline isn’t a blank check for Apple to hand over everything the world spends. The CCI’s granted extension is specifically for Apple to compile what it calls “India-specific financial information.” That matters because Apple has argued that the structure India uses to compute fines could otherwise turn into an enormous exposure.

Apple’s position has centered on a claim that India would need Apple’s worldwide financial details for the period subject to the fine—2022 to 2024. Apple pointed to how the European Union calculates fines in a similar way. arguing that India using worldwide figures for that period could lead to a fine as large as $38 billion.

But Apple wasn’t only contesting the math. It was also battling the legal foundation of the calculation itself. During 2024, India changed its approach so that fines can be based on global turnover instead of local. Apple says the new rules should not apply to the entire 2022-to-2024 period because the change took effect later.

Apple has challenged that law change in a New Delhi court and, during the meantime, asked for the antitrust proceedings to be paused.

The CCI refused. It accused Apple of trying to stall the case and declined to put the proceedings on hold.

What made the timing especially confusing was that the CCI set May 21. 2026 as a final hearing date—yet the Delhi High Court later stepped in with a different kind of pressure. On May 18. the Delhi High Court ordered Apple to surrender audited statements. but told the CCI not to issue a ruling before July 15. 2026.

On paper, that sequence left room for Apple to keep fighting on two fronts: roughly two months to supply the information the CCI needs, and roughly two months to continue its protest against the law change in the High Court.

Now, it appears Apple has gained about a month’s reprieve—enough to frame June 25, 2026 as the finish line for compiling the India-specific financial information.

There’s another crucial detail in how the court seems to have accepted the scope of what Apple will provide: the information will be limited to India. If so. the CCI may have less room to base any fine on global turnover—the very mechanism Apple has warned could produce a worst-case $38 billion outcome.

The numbers Apple sought to avoid also sit uncomfortably against how deeply India is embedded in Apple’s business. Apple opened its first ever store in India in 2023, and India is increasingly central to manufacturing—particularly for the iPhone. As of March 2026, a reported one in four of all iPhones were made in India.

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