Why Trump's iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.

Why Trump's iPhone tariff threat might not be enough to bring production to the U.S.

For now, most of Apple's most important products are exempt from tariffs after Trump gave phones and computers a tariff waiver — even from China

Kuo: Apple Better Off Paying Tariff Than Moving iPhone Production to U.S.

Kuo: Apple Better Off Paying Tariff Than Moving iPhone Production to U.S. Apple should absorb a 25% tariff on U.S. iPhone sales rather than attempt to relocate assembly lines to the United States, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a post on X, Kuo called the idea of shifting production “unrealistic” and financially unwise, especially with Donald Trump once again pressing Apple to build iPhones in America. […] This post Kuo: Apple Better Off …

Donald Trump wants to force Apple to repatriate the production of his phones, but such a measure seems difficult to achieve economically, as the production chain is globalized

President Donald Trump's threat of 25 percent import tariffs is not a sufficient deterrent to move iPhone production to the United States, writes Jukka Lehtinen, Kauppalehti's US correspondent.