What? The GoPros sold in the US will just be produced in a third country, the article doesn’t say where though. You can still get a Chinese made GoPro in China
The interesting bit is where GoPro will get the cameras for the US market produced.
>The interesting bit is where GoPro will get the cameras for the US market produced.
I'd guess Thailand or Japan. I clear international freight through customs for my primary income and see a lot of finished cameras, and even just CMOS, with the most common countries being China, Japan (e.g. Canon) and Thailand (e.g Nikon). A lot of complete digital still image AND video cameras come out of Japan and Thailand actually.
Japan has a much higher manufacturing cost (it defeat the purpose of GoPro's move of evading tariff to reduce manufacturing cost.)
Thailand, on the other hand, has a mature digital imaging electronics manufacturing industry. Some of the lower end SONY digital cameras/electronics have been made in Thailand / Malaysia too.
Interesting, because I was guess Mexico or maybe Foxconn in Brazil, but I guess it makes more sense with a country that already have camera production facilities.
> The interesting bit is where GoPro will get the cameras for the US market produced.
If silicon fab, die packaging, and rigid-flex sub-assembly of the critical camera piece were all done in China, then subsequently forwarded to another country which doesn't have a looming destination tariff threat for final assembly, would this risk still be interesting?
The PCB + sensor, while effectively are the 90% of device value, can still be justifiably declared to American customs at 110% of their cost in China, and many companies vying for coveted "made in USA" stamp do exactly that.
What comes after is easy to imagine, they are being put into a very expensive casing, and stamped with their new place of "origin."
You can research yourself how "made in USA" Google Pixels were made
