[sten]

how do you define an ‘American’ company?

would it be the number of employees that are American?

if that were the case, Apple wouldn’t be American either (if you count it’s overseas manufacturing employees)

[Star Traveler]

It’s where it’s based and the ownership of it ...

[Swordmaker]

if that were the case, Apple wouldn’t be American either (if you count it’s overseas manufacturing employees)

Apple has ZERO overseas manufacturing employees. . . you are showing your ignorance. Those employees you call apple also work for every other consumer electronic maker in the world. . . in fact, here is a list of those companies:

FoxConn's customer list.

As of January 2012, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.'s subsidiary FoxConn Technology Group assembles approximately 40% of the consumer electronics in the world according to numerous sources including Wikipedia and the New York Times. Here is a partial list of 52 of FoxConn's customers I've been able to compile from news articles where their contractural relationships were mentioned over the past five years. It is by no means an exhaustive list as it is only the top 52 customers out of thousands:

• Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
• Alcatel (France)
• Amazon (United States)
• Apple Inc. (United States)
• Archos (France)
• ASRock (Taiwan)
• Asus (Taiwan)
• Barnes & Noble (United States)
• BenQ (South Korea)
• Blackberry (Canada)
• Cisco (United States)
• Dell Inc.(United States)
• EVGA Corporation (United States)
• Fujitsu (Japan)
• GE Thomson
• Google (United States)
• Griffin Technologies (United States)
• Gründig Mobile (Germany)
• Hewlett-Packard (United States)
• HTC (Taiwan)
• Huawei (China)
• Intel (United States)
• IBM (United States)
• Kyocera Communications (Japan)
• Lenovo (China)
• Lenovo/Motorola Mobility (China)
• LG Lucky GoldStar (South Korea)
• Microsoft (United States)
• Microsoft MSI (Taiwan)
• Motorola Communications (United States)
• NCR (United States)
• NEC Casio Communication (Japan)
• Netgear (United States)
• Nintendo (Japan)
• Nokia Oyj (Finland)
• PackardBell (Netherlands)
• Panasonic (Japan)
• Philips (Netherlands)
• Pioneer Electronics (Japan)
• Samsung (South Korea)
• Sanyo (Japan)
• Sharp (Japan)
• Siemens (Germany)
• Sony (Japan)
• TCL Communication Technology (China)
• Telefunken (Germany)
• Thomson (France)
• Toshiba (Japan)
• Vizio (United States)
• Xiaomi (China)
• Zoostorm (New Zealand)
• ZTE (China)

The other 60% of the world's electronics in 2012 were essentially manufactured by other CHINESE non-HonHai owned manufacturing companies. . . and HonHai is not owned by the Chinese, but is Taiwanese. HonHai has grown its share to over 50% in the almost three years since 2012. Almost every single other investment you can name will have components made by one of the companies listed above. . . who will have it assembled by HonHai. OOPS, you DO have a problem.

As you see, Apple HAS NO OVERSEAS MANUFACTURING EMPLOYEES. Not one. They have some Apple employees who supervise the contracts to assure the employees of the contract companies are treated well, according to the terms of the contracts Apple imposes on them.