Key Apple Supplier Eyeing Production Move to US in Response to Tariffs

You know how long and expensive thats going to be? Its going to be YEARS before any assembly plants for apple products are up and running here in the US with all the red tape they got to go though, environmental evaluations, construction, etc?

Also...Who the hell are you going to staff these assembly plants with? Americans who dont have the skill set, the experience or the desire to do this kind of labor especially at the same prices people in china are doing it for.

Now, lets be totally real here...the conditions over seas where all these electronics are assembled are messed up no doubt, but they exists because people there are willing to do it for what little pay they get. Its not slavery, they are getting paid and anyone there (as far as i know) can get up and quit and walk out at any time...they are not held there at gunpoint (again as far as i know)....

BUT...do you really think us fat, lazy entitled americans are going to do the same labor, for the same pay? You best think otherwise because an American part time worker doesn't want to flip burgers without benefits for minimum wage. You really think they are going to work 12-18 hour shifts at less then minimum pay with no benefits building electronics?

NEVER HAPPENING. So even if you do bring back the jobs here in the States...the prices are going to increase so much for the product just to offset the cost of the Americans salary to build them and the items are going to be unafforable to most people, then the company is going to go under because they cant sell the items they are spending a fortune on building because it cost too much for them to build them here in the US.

Its a sad cold reality of business. Build for low, sell for high. Supply and demand. Apple isn't the only company doing that. Its been done this way for CENTURIES.

Trump still thinks its the 1800s where people are going to work in unsafe workhouses (Yes im using a Charles Dickens term here) using child labor for pennies, so the wealthy can get even wealthier!

The man is a idiot pure and simple and he's tanking the economy just to have the world kiss his ass, and he even said it. This is nothing more then a massive ego trip for him, and i got to hand it to the chinese for not kissing his ass.

Look..as an american i want good jobs here for myself and my fellow citizens. of course. I want jobs where we can make a livable wadge doing something we believe in and can be proud of. But i honestly do feel the days of us going to the assembly plant to build a product to sell on the market at retail, and have a dependable livable income were we can afford a home and raise a family, those days are behind us now.

Its not the industry revolution. Its not the world war 2 post war baby boom. its 2025. We live in an era of computers and automation and yes, sadly cheep overseas labor to assemble things and thats because of globalization for good or ill and thats been the way things have been done for nearly 40 years now and going backwards as trump is trying to do, is just idiotic.

This is just a major ego trip for him, a shallow ego from a idiotic man thats been forced on all of us!

What? Companies actually considering moving manufacturing to the US? Who would've thought...

Time to bring jobs back home to America.

Wow people really read the words "examining", "may" and "did not provide further detail about where or when any potential expansion in American manufacturing might occur" and immediately jumped to the tariffs are bringing manufacturing back to the US. Their entire response could be summed up in the nonresponse of "we're looking in to it".

What's the solution then ?

The U.S. is 37 Trillion (37,000 Billion) in debt and it's increasing by 2+ trillion / year. We are spending more in interest payments on the debt than on the defense budget and medicare. Much of the manufacturing has pulled out of the U.S. and in 2 years what will be left ? How should we get the manufacturing to return to the U.S. ?

If the U.S. wants to go back to the time when U.S. manufacturing was booming (U.S. manufacturing peaked in the 1970s), then we also should move the tax rate back to that time period. That will help pay down the debt.




Instead, Trump and Congress are focused not just on extending Trump's tax cuts, but making them permanent.

No matter what, 2 years will go by, better to start moving and building now than to sit and do nothing.

We won’t have a country left in 2 years. Unless the Orange Character/Anti-Christ gets impeached.