In a recent interview with The New Yorktimes, the President-elect of the United States Donald Trump said that, after the communication of the results, he received two phone calls from the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates.
Trump you said to Cook that would be a “achievement real” for he get that Apple manufacture their products in United States, rather than do it in countries as China or Viet Nam, where operate many of its current partners of manufacturing as Pegatron or Foxconn, two of them more important.
Received a call of Tim Cook of Apple and you said: ‘ Tim, know that an of them things that will be an achievement real for me is when get that Apple build a great plant in United States, or many plants large in the United States, where instead of go to Chinese, go to Viet Nam, or go to them places that you goes , is making its products here.
Cook acknowledged the proposal saying no rodeos “I understand that”, according to Trump.
Donald Trump at the offices of The New York Times
Trump said that trust that Apple will use the American-made based on incentives that plans to offer to the manufacturer of the iPhone, including a “very large tax cut” and “substantial cuts of regulation” for corporations.
I said: “I think that we are going to create incentives for you, and think it’s going to do it. We are asking a very large tax cut for corporations, of which you will feel happy. “But going to ask large cuts of taxes, have that undo us of the regulations, the regulations it are doing impossible.” Both if you is liberal or conservative, could sit me and show you the regulations that any person would be of agreement in that are ridiculous […] And those companies not can, even can begin, not can expand is, is are drowning.
A report recent said that Apple requested to its partner Foxconn that study the possibility of moving the production of the iPhone until United States. However Terry Gou, Chairman of Foxconn, seems to be excited about is little idea due to unavoidable production costs associated with this change in comparison with doing so in China.
While did campaign in the Liberty University of Virginia at the beginning of this year, Trump said that “are going to get that Apple start to build their cursed computers and things in this country instead of in others countries”, to while threatened with tax with a tax of the 45% them products imported of Chinese, a measure protectionist without preceding in the history recent , and encouraged to a boycott to the products of Apple in United States.
Cook said previously that Apple manufactures them iPhone in China because the country has since a “huge emphasis in the manufacturing”, while notes that the force of work American has with a number less of individuals that have been formed in them skills necessary.
China put an emphasis on manufacturing. In what we would call, you and I would call skills vocational. United States, with the time, began to leave from having so many skills vocational. I want to say, you can take every tool to United States and probably put them in a room where we are sitting. In China, you’d have to have several fields of football.
Obviously Apple, as others so many companies, also are benefits of them wages more low prevailing in China, where many of their suppliers are located very near one of the other. In Asia, TSMC of Taiwan manufactures chips of the series to for iPhone, the Japanese Sharp and Japan Display supplied screens, and the Japanese SK Hynix and Toshiba produce chips of memory for the device.
Apple has a plant of manufacture for the Mac Pro in Austin, Texas, operated by Flextronics, but is an effort very limited given the relative low volume of production of this equipment.
To level personal, Cook is positioned in favor of Hillary Clinton, organizing a collection of funds in August. In a memorandum of all the company issued after the victory of Trump, Cook urged to them employees of Apple to “forward together” despite the “uncertainty”.
At enterprise level, Apple showed their support to the democratic and Republican candidates during their respective campaigns, but according to reports, limited its support to the National Convention Republican in 2016 due to the controversial comments of Trump on minorities, women and immigrants.
