The news comes as China and the U.S. are embroiled in a trade war.
at a highly anticipated meeting during the Group of 20 summit in Japan on Saturday. Trump has called out Apple specifically in the past asking it to move more of its production from China to the U.S.
“Like all of our products, the new Mac Pro is designed and engineered in California and includes components from several countries including the United States,” Apple said in a statement. “We’re proud to support manufacturing facilities in 30 US states and last year we spent $60 billion with over 9,000 suppliers across the US. Our investment and innovation supports 2 million American jobs. Final assembly is only one part of the manufacturing process.
For the last Mac Pro, introduced in 2013, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook made a show of manufacturing the computer in Austin, Texas, as part of the company’s $100-million Made-in-the-USA push. Late last year, Apple announced it would invest $1 billion to expand its operations there with a new employee campus.
The Mac Pro is Apple’s lowest-volume product; however, the decision on where to make it comes at a particularly sensitive time. For more than a year, Apple avoided major damage from the U.S. trade war with China, thanks in part to a White House charm offensive by Cook. But the recent round of tariffs proposed by the U.S. includes mobile phones, such as, Apple’s most important product, which is made almost entirely in China. Laptops and tablets may also be encumbered with the 25% import levy.
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