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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - GE Appliances will relocate production of refrigerators, gas ranges, and water heaters from China and Mexico to the United States as part of a $3+ billion investment aimed at expanding its operations in Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina.

The investment — the second-largest in the Louisville-based company's history — is expected to add more than 1,000 jobs while ramping up domestic production and modernizing plants in the next five years.

The majority of GE Appliances' production is already in the U.S. and the shift means only that the company will transfer more work to its domestic plants.

GE Appliances will relocate production of gas ranges from Mexico to a plant in Georgia, while six refrigerator models now made in China will be m

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