President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Apple would shift more manufacturing from Mexico to the United States.
The commander-in-chief told a meeting of governors that Apple CEO Tim Cook promised him during a meeting at the White House that the firm would build more products in America, per a report from Bloomberg.
Trump said that Cook “stopped two plants in Mexico” and vowed substantial investment into the United States.
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“They don’t want to be in the tariffs,” Trump said.
Bloomberg noted that it wasn’t clear which specific Apple manufacturing projects Trump was referencing, but that Foxconn Technology Group, which manufactures iPhones, has a manufacturing presence in Mexico that the company plans to increase.
The move indeed comes after Trump used tariffs in various negotiations
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