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The end of Apple’s affair with China
Economist ^ | 10.24.2022

Posted on 10/26/2022 7:18:48 PM PDT by libh8er

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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Will never buy either of them.


21 posted on 10/26/2022 9:50:00 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: central_va

“The iPhone 11 starts at $699,”

Some fools actually pay that much for those toys?

That would buy a decent CCW sidearm.


22 posted on 10/26/2022 9:52:30 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: sushiman

The American left kind of forced that. Child labor laws, work and hour regulations, insurance requirements, taxes, social security and Medicare, potential lawsuits, environmental restrictions . . . . all these protections come with embedded costs. So business looked for places that don’t have those requirements and was able to arbitrage the disparity.


23 posted on 10/26/2022 9:52:32 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: central_va
I do and so does every patriot.

You and those other patriots are the ones willing to pay twice the current price for an iPhone.
24 posted on 10/26/2022 10:00:39 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: sushiman

Why not make it possible that illegal immigrants are a relic of the past and have the opportunity to stay in their countries?

Move manufacturing to countries south of the border, all the way down to Montenegro and they will no longer feel compelled to leave their communities, except for a better job offer.

Canadians, largely, only come for a legitimate job offer or promotion.

Problem solved for a couple of generations.


25 posted on 10/26/2022 11:28:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

I meant Montevideo...


26 posted on 10/26/2022 11:30:22 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

Montenegro is in Europe, near Serbia and Kosovo. Your written tense is strange. Who are you?


27 posted on 10/27/2022 1:19:25 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
The American left kind of forced that.

Many on the right, even at FR, supported it. It was Bush who made MFN status with the Chicoms permanent.

I was in some of those debates with Freepers who supported outsourcing our manufacturing. One even called me stupid for choosing to pay a little more for American made. I wonder how that Freeper sees it now.

28 posted on 10/27/2022 4:02:24 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
I see it the same way.

Add in the benefit of American tax payers paying for our infrastructure, military, and space program instead of Chinese tax payers paying for their infrastructure, military, and space program while we borrow money to pay for their goods.

29 posted on 10/27/2022 4:06:22 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Very true! Just another reason why the 17th Amendment needs to be repealed and the power taken away from the parties. These circumstances would change immediately


30 posted on 10/27/2022 5:10:28 AM PDT by Article10 (Roger That)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
You and those other patriots are the ones willing to pay twice the current price for an iPhone.

Twice? If you are going to WILDLY exaggerate beyond belief then why not say three times, 10 times more?

31 posted on 10/27/2022 5:13:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Vendome
Move manufacturing to countries south of the border the USA.

Fixed it.

32 posted on 10/27/2022 5:16:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

If that is true by all means Apple should move manufacturing to USA. So why Apple has not done it?


33 posted on 10/27/2022 6:03:07 AM PDT by entropy12
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To: central_va

In my thinking, products are best manufactured in countries where there are large sales demand of the product. That eliminates shipping cost of finished product


34 posted on 10/27/2022 6:05:38 AM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12

APPL maximizes profit to such and extent if making something in country X is .0001% cheaper than if Made in USA they will do it. A tariff, even a small one, will elimnate that small minded anti AMerican decision making.


35 posted on 10/27/2022 7:21:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Makes no sense to me that Apple sends jobs abroad for a mere 3% cost differential. I have 3 i-phones for family members, but I use a Android made by Motorola. It was much cheaper.


36 posted on 10/27/2022 11:53:39 AM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12
Makes no sense to me that Apple sends jobs abroad for a mere 3% cost differential.

Exactly, it does make no sense. It only make sense to ivy league bean counter sh!tbirds that hate America.

37 posted on 10/27/2022 2:51:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: libh8er

But what about the children in China!!
Where will Apple get the slaves needed now?


38 posted on 10/27/2022 6:01:25 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

I see a lot of auto parts that have moved on from China.
To India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

It’s continuing the low wage chase that has gone USA>Mexico>China>


39 posted on 10/27/2022 6:08:08 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: central_va

***AMEN***

I hope eventually the IRS crawls up the ass of anyone with anything made in China, after the CIA gets done with them. I loath it when I have no alternative.

We need to make our tariffs with regard to *any* nation equal to the *highest* tariff they put on anything of ours.

First and foremost we need to penalize the HELL out of anything imported that could, and should be made here. And

Tariffs, *NOW*. They, along with the Saudis are our existential enemies.


40 posted on 11/16/2022 10:57:41 AM PST by Republican in occupied CA (I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
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