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Macs and Apple Watches are among the products to be hit by new tariffs on products manufactured in Thailand, taking...

Apple’s long-term plan to reduce its dependence on China has seen the company encourage its suppliers to set up production lines in a number of other countries, including Thailand. As before, Trump’s stated reason is that US consumers buy more Thai-made products than vice-versa (random capitalisation and punctuation sic). As that pause was set to expire, the U.S. has announced only broad frameworks with the United Kingdom and Vietnam, as well as a preliminary agreement with China.

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