“Can someone cite something substantive that he said?”
He is going to bring all manufacturing back to the US.
That is all you need to know! It doesn’t matter how. The one will make it happen.
I can’t wait to get my next iPhone. With the amount we have to pay people in the US to manufacture stuff, II think this will be an easy price of $12,352.00.
Trump is 100% right on manufacturing and the desire to end the multilateral agreements, in favor of bi-lateral agreements.
The United States is the number one consumer market in the world. When the US enters into multilateral trade agreements, that has the unfortunate effect of taking our superior position as world market leader and we treat smaller market signatories as our equal.
We squander our market leadership position without getting more consideration from the weaker signatories.
Without the premier United States consumers, Apple would not have released the Iphone, it would not have made economic sense. Samsung would have killed Apple in the cell phone market.
He's going to bring back the Great Depression if his 45% tariff is enacted.