Apple has asked its suppliers to study the possibility of transferring between 15 and 30 percent of its production capacity from China to Southeast Asian countries and Mexico.
Several knowledgeable sources of these plans told Nikkei News that this effort is driven in part by trade tensions between the United States and China.
But according to the newspaper, even when that commercial war is over, Apple will continue with these attempts as part of its efforts to diversify its network of suppliers and production.
One of the sources attributed the initiative to "higher labor costs and the risk of excessive . . .
