You said the cost would triple if made in the USA right? That would mean a retail price of $1,800 for an I-Phone. Since labor is 1.4% then to increase that much, labor would have to be $1,200 per unit if made in the USA. $10 vs $1200, labor is 120 times more expensive in the USA? This makes no sense so you want to back off of the lies? Never mess with an engineer we do numbers real good.
No, because all of those components, which are built outside of the USA, would also go up exponentially. As would all of the cost of compliances, etc. You picked one line item - which itself was flawed because of how it was processed - out of the whole thing and thought you understood the whole picture. Common mistake of folks who’ve not been there, done that.
And you assumed all the efficiencies, which were built into the very fabric of these cities, would be the same in the US, and they would not. Nothing would be the same, period. Like I said, this stuff is too complicated for most.
If they could have done it here, they would have.