Sunday, April 13, 2025

Apple has few incentives to start making iPhones in US

President Donald Trump's administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for the first time. But that's an unlikely scenario even with U.S tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China --" the country where Apple has manufactured most of its iPhones since the first model hit the market 18 years ago.

Posted by lamplighter at 01:44 AM | 11 COMMENTS | permalink

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... The disincentives for Apple shifting its production domestically include a complex supply chain that it began building in China during the 1990s. It would take several years and cost billions of dollars to build new plants in the U.S., and then confront Apple with economic forces that could triple the price of an iPhone, threatening to torpedo sales of its marquee product. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-13 12:20 PM

Lewzer just chickened out of tariffs on iPhones so why would they bother?

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-13 12:23 PM

@#2

Yeah, it was a major retreat.

That whimsical, on today off tomorrow, approach is another reason why companies are reluctant yo plan new factories in the US.

And for the companies, it is less expensive to just donate money to Republican campaigns to ~purchase~ tariff relief.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-13 01:56 PM

Donald Trump, the man who destroyed America.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-13 02:08 PM

#2

In another flip-flip today, it sounds like those tariffs are still coming.

#5 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-13 05:26 PM

it sounds like those tariffs are still coming.

Did Joe Rogan make that call at the UFC thing?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-04-13 05:31 PM

Did Joe Rogan make that call at the UFC thing?

Naw, it was little x.

m.economictimes.com

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-13 05:36 PM

#6

From the AP: Trump's commerce secretary says new electronics tariff exemptions are temporary, chip tariffs coming

#8 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-13 06:09 PM

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Elmo should get in the ring. Show the kid what a man he can be, even without money.

#9 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-04-13 06:11 PM

The problem with -------- plan is that tariff by fiat are terrible and can be overturned (and have been) days later on a whim.

That is not a stable environment for any business to base their long term projects on.

I have been working with several Canadian clients of mine to mitigate the tariffs when he was inaugurated. All those plans are on hold because as my clients have said "You have no idea what he is thinking will be in place five days let alone five months from now, so we are not moving ahead with building in the US right now. He is not well mentally and I am not spending millions moving equipment and employees to have be for nothing in a month."

#10 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-14 08:24 AM

Funny how they never said that under Biden...

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-14 08:45 AM

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