JOC Staff | Dec 06, 2012 3:48PM EST
Chief executive of Apple, Timothy D. Cook, said in interviews with NBC and Bloomberg Businessweek that Apple will manufacture one its existing lines in the U.S., The New York Times reported today.
The California-based company moved most of its manufacturing to Asia in the late 1990s, but has been criticized in recent years for outsourcing jobs abroad. Apple plans to spend $100 million on U.S. manufacturing in 2013.
The announcement was welcomed by Scott Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, but he noted that this one line of computer manufacturing should be “part of a larger trend, and not an outlier” if Apple wants to avoid being labeled a “red, white and blue-washer.”
