The new smartphone announced by the Trump Organization is likely to be manufactured in China, even though the company claims it is entirely built in the United States.
The company owned by US President Donald Trump said it will launch its first smartphone model, a gold-colored T1 device that is expected to sell for $499 and run the Android operating system.
Although the Trump Organization said in its statement that the device is built in the United States, industry experts believe that it is more likely that the components and manufacturing tools will involve Chinese firms.
In its statement, it is quite impossible for the smartphone to be designed entirely from scratch in the United States, raising questions about the legitimacy of the Donald Trump organization's 'made in the US'.
Jeff Fieldhack, Research Director at Counterpoint Research, said the United States does not have enough local manufacturing capacity to support large-scale smartphone production.
The issue of smartphone manufacturing has increasingly come into focus after Donald Trump, during his administration, threatened to impose tariffs on devices imported into the United States.
Although the move has not yet been implemented, he has openly urged companies like Apple to move iPhone production domestically, in line with the broader “Made in America” agenda to bring electronics manufacturing back to the US.
