‘CONCERNED’: The firm expects 10 percent of its revenue to be affected by US tariffs, but the ratio could have risen to 90 percent if Apple was not exempted from US policy

Taipei Times
Date: Nov 13, 2018
By: Lisa Wang  /  Staff reporter

Inventec Corp (英業達) yesterday said it plans to cope with the intensifying US-China trade war by shifting its labor-intensive module assembling business to factories in Taiwan, Malaysia or Mexico to avoid US tariffs on Chinese imports.

The trade war is the biggest risk facing the electronics industry this year, undermining capacity expansion plans in Shanghai and other cities in China, Inventec said.

“The company expects 10 percent of its revenue to be be affected by the US$250 billion tariff list,” Inventec Appliance Corp (IAC, 英華達) chief executive officer David Ho (何代水) told an investors’ teleconference.

IAC, a smart device manufacturing arm of Inventec, supplies AirPod earbuds for Apple Inc.    [FULL  STORY]