I firmly believe that the American manufacturing community can make cheap plastic crap just as well as the Chinese manufacturing community can. And once it’s at the end of an American production line, the distance from production facility to an end-cap near you is much shorter, easier, and requires less paperwork than getting a boatload of cheap plastic crap from China to an end-cap near you.
Of course, one helpful regulation here would be “either use E-Verify to confirm that you are hiring Americans to make this stuff of pay Chinese tariffs.” I think I know how most American manufacturers would respond to that.
Now, that would put multi-cultural companies like Apple in a dilemma, since they say they are an American company but have their stuff manufactured in China through contracted manufacturers. Either be American in fact, or pay Chinese style tariffs. This freedom of choice stuff can be exhilarating!
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I think it fair to springboard off your great post here and mention the root cause overseas mfg...Dems and weasel Pubbies sold out the U.S. for goodies from foreign lobbyists...nafta, chamber of commerce, Koch idiots, etc., and still got union dues and blamed Republicans successfully...now, trade agreements burned and destroyed (hallelujah), 2yrs hence for PDJT, manufacturers needed time to see it was different now...some manufacturing may need a bit more time to move back here...that is fine, but imho, those companies should contact the administration to overtly make known their intentions...that can buy them time and good will...they will be rewarded on wall street, too. Just my $.02. Good communication always helps.
USAians need to quite buying foreign made products. Why not give your neighbors a job? Buy USA.
Apple makes their stuff from a variety of sources around the world, and many of those sources are here in the USA, including chip makers. More so than most companies. Name one phone company other than Apple that makes phones in the USA. You can't. They source some stuff from Taiwan. Other companies are heavily invested in communist China. Stop buying android communist phones and computers.
The parts for the iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac are manufactured by Apple and contractors across 28 countries. This includes plants in India where the 5s is produced. Apple does final assembly in Ireland, China,... and in the USA. For some time, Apple products were made in Brazil. Other companies are primarily only in China. So tariffs on Chinese goods will harm other tech companies far more so than Apple. Apple can shift its presence via contractors anywhere, unlike other companies (like Samsung) who own factories in China and have Chinese employees.