Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs (thehill.com)

hackingbear writes: President Trump acknowledged in a tweet that "Apple prices may increase because of the massive Tariffs we may be imposing on China," but suggested the issue was not with the tariffs themselves. "There is an easy solution where there would be ZERO tax, and indeed a tax incentive. Make your products in the United States instead of China. Start building new plants now," Trump wrote. The U.S. is threatening to impose 25% tariffs on all $500 billion worth of Chinese imports over issues such as intellectual property theft.

While Apple et al are still making their products in China, Trump didn't offer Apple a place to find the millions of laborers needed to make their products, given that the official unemployment rate is at a historic low of 3.9%. Manufacturers also need to compete in the labor market with garbage companies who need to find American laborers willing to recycle their own trash -- a job once imposed upon China as a condition to enter the World Trade Organization and enjoy advantageous tariff rates. China is gracefully giving back those jobs as the U.S. is complaining of unfair trades.

Comments

Re:Rock and hard place

[Gavagai80]

Those rare earth materials are present in the USA. Trump is hard at work ripping up environmental regulations so that we can enjoy strip mining throughout America.

He said it, now it will Happen!

[Herkum01]

Finally, Trump told Apple what they needed to do. That was the problem with Apple, their management was totally clueless and had no idea what to do. They probably did not even have a meeting on the subject.

Now that Trump has finally spoken up and now they know what to do!

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Re:Rock and hard place

[molarmass192]

Except Trump knows cell phones, nobody knows cell phones like him, let me tell you, you know, he has a cell phone. Has had one right from the start of phones. He knows what it takes to build one, and he's not buying it. We can create good, no great, jobs, let me tell you, for American people. It's people who make a difference, little people, like the people who build things. These are going to be the best, and Trump knows best better than anyone, cell phones the world has ever seen, and American's are going to build them, and export them to China, and those tiny Canadians. We're going to be the hugest cell phoning creating country the world has ever seen, and we're going to have it now. It's simple, mark his words, we ... will ... build ... them, and it's going to be great, and the phones are going to be great. The best the world has ever seen. He knows cell phones, not like that crooked Hillary, has anybody see those mail servers, but we're going to build those cell phones. The fake news will tell you cell phones can't be done, but Trump knows for a fact, he's seen it, that they are built here, and they're great, let me tell you.