Apple moved Mac Pro production to China, but does not want to pay customs duties

24. 7. 2019

Apple presented at the WWDC conference the new Mac Pro, which will not only be extremely powerful, but also very modular and astronomically expensive. There is quite a lot of information about it on the web, we ourselves have published several articles about the upcoming Mac Pro. One of the news is (unfortunately for some) that Apple is moving the entire production to China, so the Mac Pro will not be able to boast of the inscription "Made in USA". Now this can lead to problems.

As it turned out, Apple is in real danger of the new Mac Pro ending up on the list of goods subject to customs duties by the US administration. These tariffs are the result of a months-long trade war between the US and China, and if the Mac Pro really does go down, Apple could be in quite a bit of trouble.

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The Mac Pro could appear on the lists (along with other Mac accessories) because it contains some components that are subject to the 25% tariff. According to foreign sources, Apple has sent an official request to have the Mac Pro and other Mac accessories removed from the customs lists. There is an exception to this which states that if the component is not available in any other way (other than by import from China), the duty will not apply to it.

Apple claims in its filing that there is no other way to get this proprietary hardware into the US than to have it manufactured and shipped from China.

It will be interesting to see how the US authorities react to this request. Especially due to the fact that Apple moved production to China to reduce production costs. The 2013 Mac Pro was assembled in Texas, making it the only Apple product to be manufactured on domestic American soil (albeit with the assembly of components, most of which were imported).

If Apple doesn't get an exemption and the Mac Pro (and other accessories) are subject to 25% tariffs, the company will have to make the products more expensive in the US market to maintain an adequate level of margins. And potential customers will definitely not like that.

Source: Macrumors

Topics: Mac Pro, uses, accessories, MacRumors, Mac, product, Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),

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