Apple has announced plans to spend 500 billion dollars (400 billion pounds) and employ 20,000 additional employees in the United States, as it seeks to protect itself from the impact of the latest tariff for President Donald Trump targeting goods in China.
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, revealed a four -year initiative after a meeting with Mr. Trump at the White House. The plan includes building a new manufacturing facility for advanced servers in Houston, Texas, which enhances its flowing TV production capacity, and the acquisition of the exact chips made in Arizona by the Taiwan Supplier TSMC.
IPhone Maker has long collected the majority of its products in China, endangering it from the rising trade conflict of Mr. Trump with Beijing. The US President imposed additional fees of 10 percent on all Chinese imports, while China responded with its own measures, including the potential restriction of the essential rare ground minerals for electronics manufacturing.
Mr. Trump also claimed last week that Apple will transfer some operations from Mexico to the United States in response to the threat of definitions on Mexican goods. Although Apple has no great presence in Mexico itself, one of its main manufacturing partners, Foxconn, is expanding there.
Apple's commitment to $ 500 billion includes daily operations, supplier partnerships and office expansion, which the company says is the largest American investment ever. “We are optimistic about the future of the American innovation,” said Mr. Cook. “We are proud to build on our old American investments with this commitment of $ 500 billion in the future of our country.”
As part of this advertisement, Apple will establish a 250,000 square feet facility in Houston to produce advanced servers that were previously made abroad, as well as intensifying chips orders from the Arizona factory of TSMC. These Apple moves can protect from import duties on Chinese Chinese goods, but some analysts also see them as strategic gestures to maintain the Trump administration along with.
In the first state of Mr. Trump, Apple has obtained different winding exceptions after pledge to increase the American manufacturing fingerprint, including collecting the latest generation of desktop computer in the United States. Mr. Cook contributed a million dollars in the opening fund for Mr. Trump and attended, along with other major technology leaders.
Apple says most of the new 20,000 American jobs will be created in research, development and artificial intelligence. However, analysts warn that Apple's transactions with the White House may prove a problem in China, where the authorities are said to explore an investigation into the company's application store fees. Beijing has already taken measures against other US -based companies, which led to speculation that Apple may soon face scrutiny, although it has yet to avoid revenge.
Last week, Apple occupied the headlines of Britain by withdrawing the highest level of data privacy protection for users, rather than complying with the secret government request reported to install the “Backdooor” system. The Ministry of the Interior’s order to worry about Washington, where legislators are pushing to comply with the requests of the foreign government that weaken the encryption.
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