After Donald Trump announced plans to slap a 10% tariff on Chinese imports, leading PC makers Dell, HP, and Microsoft decided to prepare and asked their manufacturing partners in China to maximize their output in November and December to lower costs and mitigate potential disruptions, reports Nikkei. The longer-term plan of all three companies (and the industry at large) is to transfer production from China to other countries.
"We have been in meetings with several U.S. clients, and they are all eager to know whether we can further accelerate our plan to have meaningful production outside of China," one electronics component maker that supplies Apple, HP, and Microsoft told Nikkei.
