(Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to move some production of Macintosh
computers to the United States from
China
next year, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in remarks published on
Thursday, in what could be a important test of the nascent comeback in
U.S.
electronics manufacturing.
Apple makes the majority of its products, from Macs to the iPhone and
iPad, in
China, the world's factory floor for
electronics.
But like other U.S. corporations, it has come under fire for relying on
low-cost Asian labor and contributing to the decline of the U.S.
manufacturing sector.
Cook did not
say which Macintosh products will be produced in the United States. But
the effort is expected to go well beyond simple final assembly of
devices, with Apple and unnamed partners building most or all of the
components in the United States as well.
The
company will spend more than $100 million on the U.S. manufacturing
initiative, Cook said in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek
published on Thursday.
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