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Apple is planning to build three "big, big, big" manufacturing plants in the United States. The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, has been the one who has revealed that he had communicated it to the President of the United States, Donald Trump. The news was shared by Trump himself in an interview with the prestigious New York newspaper The Wall Street Journal.
Apparently Tim Cook is committed to building “three big plants; three beautiful plants, »but little else has transcended to the media about the details of the matter. It is unclear what purpose Apple will dedicate these three plants it plans to build in the United States, nor has anything been said about the location where the three new factories will eventually settle.
In an excerpt from the interview given by Donald Trump to the Wall Street Journal, reads as follows: “I spoke to Tim Cook, He has promised me three big plants; big, big, big, ”said the president of the United States as part of a discussion with the CEO of Apple on business tax reform and business investment. “I said… you know, Tim, unless you start building your plants in this country, I'm not going to consider my government to have had any economic success. He called me and told me that the plan is going forward ”.
Apple representatives have declined to provide additional clarification on Trump's remarks. Apple has been investigating moving some of its manufacturing to the United States since Trump declared that they were going to get Apple to start assemble their damn computers and things in this country instead of other countries, ”during a 2016 election campaign speech at Liberty University in Virginia. For now, Trump has threatened to introduce a XNUMX percent tax on products imported from China. .
Following pressure from Trump, Apple has asked its suppliers Foxconn and Pegatron to consider the idea of starting to manufacture iPhones in the United States. While Pegatron rejected the offer, Foxconn, for its part, yes he accepted it and in fact has plans to build a new factory TFT-LCD in the United States. The latest information on this topic suggests that the company is considering Wisconsin as the state where the facility dedicated to making new iPhones will be built.
Apple CEO Tim Cook has already explained on occasion that the Cupertino-based company manufactures iPhones in China due to the value of the Asian country's workforce. "China places a huge emphasis on the processes that go into manufacturing," said Apple's top executive. «The United States, in time, began to stop having this type of workforce so highly qualified. That is, you can take every one of the specialized and qualified tool pawns in the United States and they would all fit in this room So small we are sitting on However, to do the same in China, we would probably need the space of several soccer fields. "
The arrival of Trump to power in the United States government has meant a before and after for companies like Apple that manufacture their products outside US borders. The threat of covering them with tariffs and torpedoing their imports to the maximum has been a valid tool for Donald Trump to begin to see how several large North American manufacturers begin to weave their plans to bring production back to the United States. Still It remains to be seen whether Apple's plans to create the three factories in the USA they end up crystallizing or if they are simply a strategy to buy time.