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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 25 2020, @02:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the shifting-sands dept.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/china-trade-war-could-push-iphone-contractor-foxconn-to-build-in-mexico/

For years, iPhones (or their boxes) have said that they were "designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China." But thanks to an escalating trade war between the US and China, that might not be true in the coming years. Reuters reports that two of Apple's biggest manufacturing contractors, Foxconn and Pegatron, are working to expand their facilities in Mexico with an eye toward eventually building iPhones there.

[...] This isn't Foxconn's only effort to diversify away from China. Last year, Foxconn announced plans to begin manufacturing iPhones in India, and the company is now manufacturing the iPhone SE there.

Sources told Reuters that Taiwan-based iPhone contractor Pegatron is also considering a shift to Mexico, but few details about its plans are known.

Previously:

(2019-12-14) Exclusive: Documents Show Foxconn Refuses to Renegotiate Wisconsin Deal
(2019-09-12) Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws
(2019-02-01) Foxconn May Drop Plans to Build Flat Screens in Wisconsin
(2018-11-06) Foxconn May Import Workers for U.S. Plant
(2018-09-24) Who are the Largest Employers in the World?
(2018-03-27) Foxconn to Acquire Belkin International (Linksys)
(2017-08-19) Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote to Provide up to $3B in Subsidies to Foxconn.
(2017-08-01) Will Wisconsin Get Foxconned?
(2017-01-24) Foxconn Mulls New U.S. Factory
(2017-01-02) Foxconn Plans to Replace Nearly All Human Workers With Robots in Some Factories
(2016-03-30) Foxconn Acquires Sharp at a Lower Price Than Previously Agreed
(2016-02-25) Sharp Accepts $6.25 Billion Takeover Bid from Foxconn, but Foxconn is Wary of Debt
(2015-08-10) Foxconn to Invest $5 Billion in India
(2015-07-14) Foxconn to Hire 1 Million People in India by 2020
(2014-09-21) Why You Can't Manufacture Like Apple
(2014-07-08) Foxconn Confirms Apple will be First Customer for its 'Foxbot' Robot Assembly Line

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @03:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @03:22PM (#1041644)

    Redundant

    I guess we're not supposed to remind people of the billions of dollars in ongoing fraud, a robbery in progress. Just keep those little eyes shut, right?

    La la la la life goes on...