Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan after pressure from Donald Trump

Apple is putting another $100 billion toward expanding manufacturing successful the US arsenic the institution responds to unit from President Donald Trump to manufacture much of its products successful the US. The determination builds upon the company’s archetypal program to invest $500 cardinal successful the US implicit the adjacent 4 years, and includes a caller American Manufacturing Program that the institution says volition bring much of Apple’s “supply concatenation and precocious manufacturing” to the US.

As portion of its investment, Apple has agreed to an expanded partnership with Corning to manufacture “100 percent” of the iPhone and Apple Watch screen solid successful Kentucky. It volition besides enactment with Samsung astatine its spot fab successful Austin, Texas, “to motorboat an innovative caller exertion for making chips, which has ne'er been utilized earlier anyplace successful the world,” according to Apple’s property release.

Apple’s Houston-based server factory, which it announced earlier this year, volition statesman wide accumulation starting successful 2026, portion Apple is besides expanding its information halfway successful Maiden, North Carolina. Last month, Apple announced that it volition unfastened a manufacturing academy successful Michigan to assistance bid American companies successful “advanced manufacturing” techniques arsenic well.

It’s not wide whether Apple’s caller promises volition satiate Trump, who believes Apple tin marque its iPhones successful the US. Apple has shifted immoderate of its manufacturing retired of China and into Vietnam and India successful caller years successful an effort to debar tariffs and proviso concatenation disruptions. Trump has criticized Apple for not bringing the enactment backmost to the US instead, and threatened the institution with a 25 percent tariff if it doesn’t manufacture much products domestically.

During Trump’s archetypal term, Cook similarly tried to curry favor with the medication by holding private dinners and adjacent lobbying the US commercialized representative for lighter tariffs. The institution even announced plans to manufacture its 2019 Mac Pro successful Texas aft Trump granted Apple a tariff exemption. At the time, reports suggested that Apple planned to manufacture its Mac Pro successful China aft the US accumulation of its 2013 exemplary was hobbled by a screw shortage.

“I’m arrogant to accidental that Apple is starring the instauration of an end-to-end silicon proviso concatenation close present successful America, from plan to instrumentality to wafer accumulation to fabrication to packaging,” Cook said during a property briefing. “We’re going to support moving with our suppliers to determination adjacent much of this incredibly precocious enactment to America.”

Apple revealed past week that Trump’s tariffs could add different $1.1 billion to its costs during the September quarter, adding to the $800 cardinal it has already spent connected the levies. Trump has besides introduced caller “reciprocal” tariffs that impact products imported from a wide scope of countries, including Vietnam, which manufactures Macs, iPads, and Watches. On Wednesday, Trump said helium would rise tariffs on India by 25 percent, wherever Cook said the “majority” of iPhones destined for the US are made.

Update, August 6th: Added a connection from Cook.