The US President was eating dinner with Apple’s CEO when he turned to the Tech Dev’s top executive and asked him what would happen to Apple to transfer the iPhone to the United States from China. According to New York TimesApple’s CEO said, “Those jobs are not returning.” The newspaper added that “now there is no viable option for most Apple products made in the United States.”
US manufacturing may not be so flexible to help build an iPhone in the states
11 years ago, President Trump asked Tim Cook about making an iPhone in the United States, President Obama spoke the same to Steve Jobs. | Image Fine Obama Library
As the story goes, a foreman for the Chinese manufacturing facility awakened 8,000 workers in the factory hostels. Every assembly line worker was given biscuits and a cup of tea and was guided by the work station. Within 30 minutes, a 12 -hour shift began in which these workers kept the glass display in the bevede frames. After four days, the plant was producing more than 10,000 iPhone units a day. Apple’s executive told the story, “There is a pace and flexibility. There is no American plant that matches it.”
There is evidence that both presidents want that iPhone to be made in the United States, it is an old dream that is not in any symbol of realism. In a 2024 survey conducted by the Cato Institute and Yugov, 80 % of respondents said that if more and more people worked on the Assembly line, the United States would be better. But only 25 % of those responding to the survey said they would take such a job. These are low -paying, boring jobs that have some benefits.
An excellent example of this is constantly dependent on Apple’s TSMC to develop its semiconductor. However, no one in Taiwan makes these parts as well as the company. Heart also went to a rent about the US workers compared to the Chinese manpower. He says the latter is in good shape, more discipline, and is less likely to be intoxicated and unable to work.
Chinese workers are rarely likely to physically attack each other and their manager. They do not take a 30 -minute bathroom break at the company. They often do not leave because their children outside the state have found their new job and now they receive 60 % of their wages as a help of children. They do not disappear because they have gone to the Math Benders. And those boxes are not sleeping on the midshift because their salary was turned into pills since yesterday. “
-Molson Hart, Founder, Viaart
For those who have said that the rates announced by President Trump are very high, Heart said surprisingly that the current rates imposed by the president will not work because they are not high enough. He offers an easy example of how 54 % of tariffs will affect iPhone prices. Before the taxes:
- Apple purchased iPhone that is designed in $ 100
- Apple sells iPhone to Stores $ 200
- Stores sold i and me iPhones in $ 400
After 54 TU tariffs, pricing happened like:
- Apple purchased iPhones in 4 154 ($ 100 + $ 54 in import tax)
- Apple sells these iPhones in 8 308 (doubled from what he paid)
- Stores they sell iPhone to you and me for $ 616 (doubled from what they paid)
The revenues imposed by President Trump are very few who say to the toy executive to bring manufacturing back to the United States
The reason for Heart is that tariffs are not high enough is that manufacturing and supply chain in the United States is so bad that making 54 % of tariffs will cost more than 54 % tariffs in China. As a result, “Both Apple and users will prefer it, so it will not be in the United States.”
