The trade war started by Donald Trump is claiming its first casualty in some time, we are obviously talking about Huawei. However, these actions usually lead to reactions, and companies like Apple know that they may be the target of the Asian giant to counteract the North American measures.
This matter is on the table and Foxconn is clear on how to avoid the possible veto of China, manufacturing iPhones for the US in other countries. It would be an aggressive measure, but one that is the order of the day, since it is not the only manufacturing process that Apple is diversifying and trying to get out of the Asian giant.
Donald Trump's intention is that North American companies end up manufacturing their devices within the United States of America, something that is far from becoming a reality. To do this, it intends to increase taxes on products brought from China up to 25% in total, a measure that is not without controversy. Nevertheless, The reaction of big technology companies in the United States of America is far from what they expected in the White House, They already have several options on the table and none is to take the manufacturing chain to the North American country, now what?
Foxconn, what is The company in charge of manufacturing the vast majority of the Cupertino firm's products plans to take the production of those iPhones destined for the North American market to other countries with cheap labor, such as India. In the country of arms they have "The backfire" never better said. The most relevant Foxconn executives already take this new paradigm into account, they warn that their company already has 25% of its production capacity outside China and they would not mind covering more markets, according to reports Bloomberg. Another chapter in this story.