Overview

• Tim Cook confirmed an extra $100 billion injection at a White House event, raising Apple’s four-year U.S. investment pledge to $600 billion.
• Apple’s expanded commitment will create 20,000 research and development positions and strengthen domestic supply chains with Texas Instruments, Amcor and Corning.
• President Trump imposed 100 percent import duties on computer chips and semiconductors, waiving them for firms that expand production stateside.
• The new tariff framework is intended to drive onshoring of high-tech manufacturing under the administration’s America-First trade strategy.
• The announcement underscores rising U.S.–China trade tensions and the challenges of reconfiguring global electronics supply chains toward domestic assembly.