| 1 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015, in Dubuque, Iowa. |
| 2 | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a... |
| 3 | NEW YORK (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his claim Tuesday evening that he would stop eating Oreos, citing the cookie maker's decision to close a plant in Chicago and move it to Mexico. |
| 4 | Trump's claim is partly true. |
| 5 | Oreo's parent company Mondelez International Inc. said last month that it decided to invest $130 million in building four new production lines at a plant in Mexico, which will replace nine older production lines at its Chicago plant. |
| 6 | That will mean the number of jobs at the Chicago plant will go from about 1,200 to about 600, said Laurie Guzzinati, a Mondelez representative. |
| 7 | But the plant in Chicago will remain open. |
| 8 | Guzzinati said the decision to invest in the Mexico plant came after discussions with union representatives for workers at the Chicago plant. |
| 9 | She said the company determined that the new production lines would cost $46 million less in Mexico than in Chicago, and said labor was "one of many factors." |
| 10 | Guzzinati noted that Oreos continue to be made in some U.S. plants, including in New Jersey, Oregon and Virginia. |
| 11 | The Mondelez plant in Salinas, Mexico, opened in late 2014, and the four additional production lines are expected to be completed by mid-2016. |
| 12 | Two of those lines will make Oreo cookies, Guzzinati said. |