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@realDonaldTrump
Such an easy way to avoid Tariffs? Make or produce your goods and products in the good old USA. Its very simple!
9:55 AM · May 11, 2019 · Twitter for iPhone
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@atrupar
Workers at iPhone factories in China make less than $5 per hour. Relocating those jobs to the US isnt as simple as Trump seems to think.
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tanyev
(42,552 posts)lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)China labor cost - $120
US labor cost - $480... (skilled labor @ $20/hour)
increase in the cost of an iphone - $360
Probably increase in price to consumer - $500
GeorgeGist
(25,320 posts)profit it takes to make an iPhone?
spanone
(135,830 posts)world wide wally
(21,742 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,788 posts)onethatcares
(16,167 posts)let me know when Carrier brings back the factory they sent to Mexico, or any of the auto makers fire up their steel plants up in Pennsylvania, or the North Carolina furniture manufacturers are doing business with the South Carolina textile industries.
yeah, he's a stable genius ok.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)The layers of this onion are more than he can handle!
Meanwhile our royal orangeness is clearly in need of down time and a reboot, please inform his handler Melania, thank you!
That much golfing and avoiding transparency, we all need a break?
moondust
(19,979 posts)*Might* have worked 40 years ago before Reagan and globalization encouraged corporations to minimize the power of unions and "big gubment" in order to maximize profits and ROI for management and shareholders by moving jobs offshore to cheap labor markets where hordes of desperate people are happy to work for beans. (Their communist/autocratic governments will make sure of that! ) Now after 40 years the supply chains and distribution channels are all set up for global trade and corporate profit/ROI maximization. I doubt the corporations and Wall Street are much interested in Donny's little plan.
Idiot.