Trump tariffs: Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook has clarified that the American multinational tech bellwether chooses China for manufacturing not because of the South Asian nation’s low labour cost but because of its ‘’great tooling skills”. The tech leader’s comments assume significance amid the critically escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies after Donald Trump unleashed tariff hikes across nations after taking charge as the 47th US President in the White House earlier this year.
In a video shared on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter), Cook explained that tahere is confusion about China. Giving his opinion, Cook said, “The popular conception is that companies come to China because of low labor costs. I’m not sure what part of China they go to, but the truth is China stopped being the low labor cost country years ago.”
According to the Apple CEO, China is the manufacturing hub of several top tech companies because of the prevalent ‘quantity of skill’ in one location and the type of skill. ‘The products we require need advanced tooling and the precision that you have to have in tooling and working with materials that we do are state-of-the-art.
