President Donald Trump said the United States will build the world’s largest semiconductor plants and completely eliminate imports of microchips. In an interview with WABC, the White House chief stressed that technology companies are bringing production capacity back to US soil and that major mega‑fabs are being constructed predominantly in the state of Arizona. Trump also accused Taiwan of having “stolen” chip manufacturing from the United States in the past and said the country would soon achieve full independence in microelectronics.
The administration is applying a similar import‑substitution strategy to the pharmaceutical sector and medical equipment. The president said that, because of protective tariffs, major industry firms—Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Merck—have already begun building new plants in the United States to localize production of vital medicines.
However, the ambitious reindustrialization plans face structural constraints in the labor market. Economists have previously noted difficulties in delivering the White House’s campaign promise to sharply increase factory employment. The pool of available labor in the United States continues to shrink, and an aging population is exacerbating shortages of workers willing to staff high‑tech manufacturing lines.