It is not clear any manufacturing facilities he was talking about because Apple does not produce many final products in Mexico. It is certain that it does not build any iPhone models in the country although it gets some parts of Mexico.

But that was then and that now. Trump and Cook met in Washington on Thursday. The President added that Cook promised him that Apple would invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the United States, and Trump also made a comment about his unwillingness to obtain a 25 % tariff on Mexican exports to American definitions is the import taxes that American companies pay to import some products from a target country . Apple will have to decide whether to target itself or pass the additional costs of consumers in the form of high prices.

It is important to understand that when the United States puts a customs tariff on a country, this country does not push anything at all for companies and consumers in the United States only in the United States that the White House definitions are paid on commercial partners in the United States.

Foxconn, the contracting company that is the largest manufacturer Apple to assemble the iPhone, has an increased manufacturing in the country. At the beginning of this month, Mexico said it had agreed to send 10,000 members of the National Guard to the US -Mexican border to prevent fentanel from smuggling from Mexico to the states. Mexican imports.