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Google is working to move the production of its Pixel smartphones from China to Vietnam as the company seeks to avoid higher Chinese manufacturing costs as well as the looming concern of *****-issued tariffs on Chinese goods that would raise prices on its phones, according to a report from Nikkei.
This isn’t Google’s first move out of China. The company was reportedly working to move Nest and server hardware production for devices bound for the US to Taiwan and Malaysia earlier this year, also to avoid rising tariffs due to the US / China trade war.
While the Nikkei report doesn’t specify which partner Google is working with to produce Pixel phones in Vietnam, Bloomberg’s Tim…