More than 50 multinational companies are moving production out of China or considering it because of President Trump's tariffs, but that doesn't mean they're coming to America.

The shifts by firms from U.S.-based Apple to Google and Dell bolster White House claims that businesses would leave China to skirt punitive duties on $250 billion in imports. But instead of coming to the U.S., as he wanted, they're shifting production to Southeast Asia and elsewhere, according to a report from Nikkei Asian Review.

Japan-based Nintendo is planning to move manufacturing of its video game consoles to Vietnam, according to the report, while Dell intends to shift parts of its personal computer production to Taiwan and other Asian nations. Apple, meanwhile, is exploring whether to move 15% to 30% of its production capacity from China to Southeast Asia and is set to begin trial manufacturing of its AirPods in Vietnam.

The relocations, reflecting efforts by businesses to keep supply costs down, are weighing heavily on a Chinese economy whose growth has already reached a 27-year low amid escalating trade tensions with the U.S.

Economic conditions in China and abroad are “still severe," Mao Shengyong, a spokesman for China’s National Bureau of Statistics, said in a news conference.

Trump said that's evidence that his duties are having the desired effect. "Thousands of companies are leaving,” the president said in a pair of tweets. “This is why China wants to make a deal with the U.S., and wishes it had not broken the original deal in the first place,” a reference to the collapse of talks in May that prompted Trump to more than double tariffs on $200 billion in imports from a previous level of 10%.

“We are receiving billions of dollars in tariffs from China, with possibly much more to come," Trump added, repeating a claim that has long irked U.S. companies, which actually pay the tariffs themselves when their purchases from overseas arrive in U.S. ports.

The president first hit China with import duties in July 2018, and he warned in May that he might tack 25% levies onto the remaining $300 billion-plus in Chinese goods shipped to the U.S.

After meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Japan last month, Trump backed away from that threat. The U.S. and Beijing are instead continuing to work toward a trade deal the president hopes will open Chinese markets to American companies and end Beijing’s theft of U.S. intellectual property and trade secrets is in reach.

In the meantime, the exodus from China continues. Google has already moved assembly of its motherboards to Taiwan and is shifting production of Nest thermostats and server hardware out of the world's second-largest economy. Hewlett-Packard, too, plans to relocate parts of its operations for personal computers to Southeast Asia.

Taiwan-based Foxconn, which assembles Apple iPhones, said last month production of the devices bound for the U.S. could be moved from China because of the trade war. Apple is Foxconn’s biggest customer, and the company said it has the manufacturing capacity outside of China to support Apple if needed.

Other U.S.-based firms including Yeti Holdings, iRobot, and Crocs Inc., are also leaving China for countries such as Vietnam, India, Taiwan, and Malaysia.