The threat delivered over social media could dramatically increase the price of iPhones, potentially hurting sales and the profits of one of America’s leading technology companies. The company now joins Amazon, Walmart and other major companies as being in the White House’s crosshairs as they try to respond to the uncertainty and inflationary pressures unleashed by the import taxes being imposed by Trump.
“I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone’s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S.”
Apple, led by CEO Tim Cook, in response to Trump’s tariffs on China was looking to shift iPhone manufacturing to India as it adjusts supply chains. That plan has become a festering source of frustration for the U.S. president, who also brought it up last week during his Middle East trip.
This is the most idiotic idea of his yet. There is simply no way an iPhone can be built in the US without some major investment in plants to build them and several years to build those plants
Decades of education, first. There are fields of study at universities in China that we don’t have in the US which would be required to first build the know-how. Unless American companies hired Chinese firms as consultants I guess. Then decades of capital investment to stand up the supply chain and facilities.
All to produce things which would be so automated that there would barely be any jobs to be had once it’s all said and done.
Its just manufacturing infrastructure Michael how much could it cost? $10?
Oh ho! He’s got years left! Years, I tells ya.