‘Deep-Rooted’ Supply Chain Has ‘Very Few’ Moving Production Out of China, Jabil CEO Says
Despite three rounds of Section 301 tariffs and the threat of a fourth, “very few customers are moving existing production out of China,” CEO Mark Mondello of supply-chain services provider Jabil said on a fiscal year Q3 earnings call June…
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18. The “deep-rooted, mature supply chain that's foundational to China” has most customers staying put, he said. Many also “don't see a reasonable payback” from shifting sourcing elsewhere, plus “a decent percentage” of their Chinese production is “for final consumption in geographies other than the United States,” he said. Some customers have decided “to ramp some of their new products” in countries of origin other than China, he said. “I think that's really healthy. It's really good for us because it continues to help us balance factories and factory loading.” Mondello wants “things to get settled, and settled as soon as possible, between the U.S. and China,” he said. “If things got really, really bad, either short-term or long-term, I think it's going to be tough on everybody, us included, but let's hope that that doesn't occur.”