LG Phones Say Adios to Mexican Manufacturing Plant

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posted May 21, 2009, 2:20 PM   by Eric M. Zeman

LG said today that it plans to stop manufacturing mobile phones at a facility it operates in Mexicali, Mexico, near the California border. The plant there makes some 200,000 phones per month and has about 200 employees. LG is making the change due to an import tariff no longer being in place that cost LG 15% to import devices into Mexico. The plant will still be used to make LCD displays. The phones that were made at the Mexicali plant will instead be made at another plant that LG owns in Brazil.

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