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apple-china-factory-protests-foxconn-manufacturing-production-supply-chain-11670023099

  * Tech

Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China

The iPhone maker is looking to further diversify the supply chain
that has powered its growth

Manufacturing of top-of-the-line iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models has
been hard-hit by supply-chain snafus caused by China's Covid-19
measures.[im-677463]
Manufacturing of top-of-the-line iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models has
been hard-hit by supply-chain snafus caused by China's Covid-19
measures. VCG/Getty Images
By Yang Jie
and Aaron Tilley
Updated Dec. 3, 2022 12:34 pm ET

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In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of
its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply
chain that built the world's most valuable company, say people
involved in the discussions. It is telling suppliers to plan more
actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia,
particularly India and Vietnam, they say, and looking to reduce
dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by Foxconn Technology Group.

Turmoil at a place called iPhone City helped propel Apple's shift. At
the giant city-within-a-city in Zhengzhou, China, as many as 300,000
workers work at a factory run by Foxconn to make iPhones and other
Apple products. At one point, it alone made about 85% of the Pro
lineup of iPhones, according to market-research firm Counterpoint
Research. 

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