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Google Picks Pixel’s New Production Center To Mitigate Labor, Tariff Costs

China 2968 Info Tech - Comms Equip 222 Tariffs 1791 U.S. 5314 Vietnam 371

Alphabet’s Google may move production of its Pixel smartphone to Vietnam from China in response to rising labor costs and the likely persistence of U.S. tariffs on exports from China. The latter will likely begin from Dec. 15 at a rate of 15% and come as Google looks to double its sales of the Pixel. The sales growth may require an increased market share – U.S. imports of mobile phones fell 1.2% year over year in the 12 months to Jun. 30 to reach 219 million handsets. Google isn’t the first to move to Vietnam though, with Samsung Electronics moving their previously. Exports of phones to ...

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