GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China (reuters.com)

In an effort to counter the potential impact from new tariffs, GoPro is moving most of its U.S.-bound camera production out of China by the summer of 2019. The company said international-bound camera production will remain in China. Reuters reports: The company had previously said it was being "very proactive" about the situation regarding tariffs as U.S. and China ramped up its bitter trade war, in which both nations have imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each other's imports. "It's important to note that we own our own production equipment while our manufacturing partner provides the facilities, so we expect to make this move at a relatively low cost," said Chief Financial Officer Brian McGee. In the company's earnings call in November, GoPro said it had the option to move U.S.-bound production out of China in the first half of 2019, if necessary.

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That was my first thought too

[rsilvergun]

Trump just signed NAFTA 1.2. It's just like NAFTA except he snuck a few provisions from the TPP in there (notably the one that lets companies sue governments for lost profits, which should have be a big no-no among his America First base...).

At any rate even if they bought a factory here I doubt we'd see jobs. There's always automation. Ever see the Steam controller get made? One guy dumps parts manufactured in China into a machine and out comes controllers.