Throughout 2019, the war between the United States has begun to have commercial effects, especially in the tech sector, where most Asian companies are I'm looking for chestnuts outside of China to avoid a bidding war that may have been scheduled for some time.
The last company that makes the move to produce outside of China is Pegatron, one of the companies that Apple regularly uses to collect various components that are part of the products that Apple currently has in the market. Vietnam seems to be the preferred destination.
Taiwan-based company, Pegatron, is looking for a place to build new facilities in northern Vietnam. So far, the company rental properties in Haiphong, but all seems to indicate that the temporary plans to do outside China are still a thing of the past.
As we can read in Bloomberg, the locations used by Pegatron in Haiphong are used to make the Samsung Galaxy Note S-Pen. New institutions, not only will they be dedicated to producing Samsung, but will focus more on its production in integrating Apple products, even though the original plans do not go there, at least as long as the storm between the United States and China does not come.
This way, Pegatron will join Wistron and Han Hai is continuing its production in Vietnam, two companies looking to integrate the Apple Watch, though they have not yet taken over the production of Apple products, but it is a matter of time and see how China's relationship with the United States develops.
Most iPhone production is made in China, but relations with the United States forced many companies to seek out other countries where possible inflation does not force Apple to make production from other companies outside the country
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