“...drastically increase the cost of smartphones”
I suspect that the process of making smartphones is highly automated.
“But then you pay more for your smartphone!”
Lefties want to use slave labor and deny Americans jobs.
Most manufacturing will be highly automated.
I work in product development in light industrial.
AI, additive manufacturing and new, automated injection molding equipment have changed things rapidly in the past two or three years.
I think people in the administration know this, certainly Elon knows it.
The days of cheap labor and long supply chains are drawing to a close.
Local manufacturing and automated farming are the future.