I read an article that iphones will cost 3000+ US if manufactured in the states. Either Apple is going to take a huge hit in profits (unlikely) or common people won't be able to afford them.
A) it would still be far cheaper to just pay a 25% tariff instead of moving production to the US; B) they won't find the labour in the US to build phones; C) Americans hired to screw iPhones together won't be able to afford them
In Quebec we had a company named Bombardier. That company formally part of Quebec inc. Laurentian freeloaders, channeled out a lot of provincial and federal taxes.
Apple is Steve Job’s great legacy channelled out to China.
Democrats are pro China emissaries.
Trump proposes the right agenda, but narcissist Trump is unfortunately Trump’s agenda.
If messiahs have to be leftists, I wonder what we’ll call the person who will lead westerners out of their decadence and back to common sense.
Someone needs to read “Apple in China” by Canadian Patrick McGee to Trump, since he does not read, so he may understand Apple is a captive of Chinese manufacturing and any move would take decades.
They are going to cost 25% more if they do move to building them in US... if I am Apple, why spend the money on the move ?? Am i missing something here ?
Will the yanks pay $3500 for a US made iPhone? Well, maybe the well to do. It would sink the company. That is the calculated cost of having one made in the USA. Apple clearly is not paying off Trump (or his family) for a pass. Pay Trump $100M and you're good to go Apple. That is a drop in the bucket for you.
They’ll cost too much to make in the U.S. so nobody will buy them. Apple is better off to keep building them elsewhere and tell the orange man to go another loon a tick rant!!!!!!
Surprising that one can walk with one foot in one's mouth. Nevertheless, please read the excellent article (25 minutes long) by Adrian Humphreys, apparently published May 21, 2025. I hope it is republished so more Canadians and Americans can read about the reality of our relationship and how different people cope and keep hope for our futures
Does Trump ever sleep, or does he sit up at night and pick who he is going to with next.
I'd love to see Apple either pull it's products from the US, or have a US/rest of the world price. Something like: $3500 for a US bought iPhone, $800 for the rest of the world.
Many folks with his medical condition (the name of which is censored by the NP, in the name of "free speech") are unable to sleep, and actually think that their opinions are SO important that they MUST USE ALL CAPS. Sadly, many NP readers still love the convict :-(
Sadly, the convict has personally threatened any company that dares to tell the truth. So now, publicly listed companies have to lie to their shareholders. Y'all must be proud of your beloved convict, eh?
Stock market manipulation at its finest by the biggest grifter the world has ever seen. Will never happen and Trump knows this. This guy belongs in prison for what he’s doing to USA consumers and company shareholders.
Lucky for him he’s stacked the deck with loyalists at every level of federal investigation.
Only a genius like Donald would think that a mega-corp like Apple can blow up their entire global supply chain and invent a new US-based one in a few months. The logistics and mechanics of it are unbelievably massive and complex.
And all to essentially double the price of their phone with American labor. Tim Cook will be crucified by his shareholders if he even returns Fat Donny's calls.
The President of the USA is currently at war with all his Fortune 100 companies (the backbone of the USA economy), all his major trading partners & Bruce Springsteen. MAGA!
There goes another 25% cost added to every USA consumer. Industry experts say it would take 10 years for Apple to shift production to the USA and then once established each phone would cost $3,500USD to purchase. (Not indexed for the inflation Trump is causing). Way to fight every single one of your Fortune 100 companies, their employees, shareholders and consumers Trump! MAGA!
Poor old Donald, he’s obviously never experienced the grey market, which was everywhere in the 1970s. Cheaper is simply a way of life Donald, and your tariffs will have the opposite effect on the market, from what you think it will be.
Some say the US hasn’t the tech capacity to build just such plants in the US. I doubt that, but the notion isn’t without possible potential merit.
Thing is Foxconn (for example) already has plants in the US. Trump wants to employ Americans. So like Honda or Toyota that build a ton of cars on the USA, employing many Americans - so could Foxconn.
I feel this tariff may very well be far more malleable than others, because it has another purpose other than to build local - to show China how the US can pull business back home, costing China employment, and income away from China.
I think this push for domestic manufacturing has a bet on a robotics boom soon too. We just need a ton more scale to make those things here. There will be employment and a net benefit to the economy but the number of people employed per factory (adjusted for size of factory lol) is going to be a lot lower than in the past. An increasing number of dark factories and a lot of heavily automated ones I’d bet.
Also a lot of small manufacturing push is helpful for wartime capacity to rapidly scale drone manufacturing ala Ukraine but on American steroids.
Production cost in India vs USA means Apple would rather still make it in India and absorb 25% tariff than start manufacturing in USA. That said, Trump may not stop at 25%. Trump needs to surround himself with smarter people, not the dumb reactionaries he has right now.
Costs are higher in China relatively atleast atleast 5%, and after investing so much they(apple) just can't back down, they may start packing them in us though
That's where it is right now roughly. Given the pace of export growth it will likely grow beyond that especially as India starts producing more components.
Apple hasn't said that, 25% is the limit, nothing more. We don't know when they'll stop moving production if ever.
America takes up more than half the Iphone market. If India is supposed to exclusively export to the US then we'd ltierally get more than 50% of the total production.
Oh I misunderstood the statistic, yeah. 28% I think actually.
Still, you haven't given a source on Apple stating that they'd only use India for US shipments and don't plan to expand beyond that. They've stated they're planning to source from India mostly this quarter for America but not stated anything beyond that.
The specific quote from Tim Cook stating that “China would continue to be the country of origin for the vast majority of total product sales outside the US” appears in coverage of Apple’s Q1 2025 earnings call (February 6, 2025). The primary source is a Bloomberg article published on February 6, 2025, titled "Apple Earnings: Sales Top Estimates Despite iPhone, China Weakness." The exact link to this article is:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/apple-sales-top-estimates-despite-iphone-china-weakness
Yeah I read this. This is referring to the June quarter. "For the June quarter, we do expect the majority of iPhones sold in the US will have India as their country of origin, and Vietnam to be the country of origin for almost all iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and AirPods products also sold in the US," Cook said. "China would continue to be the country of origin for the vast majority of total product sales outside the US."
This doesn't necessarily translate to long term plans.
1000×1,25=1250$, assuming 25% on the whole unit once and no carve outs.
Price to make 100% of the iPhone in America, assuming it is possible: about 2500$ to 3000$.
Not entirely sure about access to the raw matrials needed and I don't think there's enough trained engineers in the US anynore for all the high tech manufacturing.
Trump needs to put 100% or 225% tariffs in iPhone then it will match the price of American made iphone.
It's extra stupid because nobody in America wants those jobs. They have more vacant positions than they do unemployed people. And much of that is in manufacturing related jobs.
He thinks manufacturing is the same as what it was in the 20th century.
I'm just glad that Indians will stop claiming that the Republicans were somehow better than the Democrats after all this.
Apple's profit will collapse.....trump and republican legislatures are funded by apple heavily....it's literally not practical. Its just arm twisting like the way he did with China last month.
This is nothing but arm twisting for a better trade deal...he knows it's not feasible for Apple in any case. Senators will oppose this. Apple's profit will collapse if they shift the production to usa. Apple is one of the biggest donor of Republican party. Senators will kill him alive.
Trump thinks the world and India is still in 2019 where he left. India's current cabinet and PM Modi have survived deals against odds and hostility. The arms are stronger, probably Trump would face strong retaliation and Modi will hit exactly where it hurt the most, his technocrats.
Also incorrect. (https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-price-cheaper-cost-in-japan-but-theres-a-catch) One model will be exclusive to Japan and region locked to prevent scalpers. There is no region lock for the rest of them. This is quite different from the old region locked days that separated PAL, PAL/E, NSTC U/C, and NSTC-J.
Oh, my bad. I thought they had a cheaper Japanese version and that they stopped USA preorders. That led me to believe they would implement region locks across the board. Appreciate the info
When has apple ever lost? They get a huge fine and pay a little. They beat Qcom and the EU. Hate to tell trump but no smart phone is made in the US. But he only singles out Apple. Don’t see Apple losing to the orange man.
Something being "illegal" isn't going to stop Trump or Republicans from doing it, and they control all branches of government. So at this point the only things that are illegal are being a Democrat, being a minority, or not bowing down to every Trump command.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the definition of tariffs, but wouldn’t this be just a regular tax? I thought tariffs or duties only implied to something that’s imported. Since, apple is supposed to pay this and apple is an American company, wouldn’t this just be regular tax (or some version of tax, besides duties or tariffs)? Are the purposefully avoiding using tax because they want to keep up the lie that they are trying to reduce taxes for the American people across the board?
They might or the phone carriers will eat some of the cost. They do now for you to switch. Phone plans will rise,Verizon will give you a phone for $200 ans Apple will sell a shit ton again. In the end we will pay for the tariffs
People already pay that much in other countries. Why won’t Americans pay. Indians pay 2x for an Iphone while having like less than 10 times the wage. Americans have this shit on easy mode for so long
This is why congress sets trade and tax policy (not the executive branch)! That type of policy can’t be set by the whim of one guy who’s rage texting at 4am…
Okay, so consumers will have to choose between paying 250 dollars extra for an IPhone made in China or 3000 dollars for an IPhone made in America? I wonder which one they'd want to choose.
This is all a fantasy made up in Trump's head, by the way. I can't believe America gave this stupid bastard the presidency TWICE.
An iPhone with a 25% tariff will still be cheaper than an iPhone made in the US… There’s probably a legit case for some increased tariffs but I’m so sick of him running around (well not running…) yapping like a third world dictator.
When I’m president, I’m going to pick out individual products that I personally don’t like and force companies to charge more for them. That’s the best way to manage an economy.
The consumers—some of whom are elated thinking that Donald is “shoving it up the ass” of China, India, and Apple—are going to see their phones become more expensive simply because Donald says so.
The tangerine dream needs to get back on his meds. Won't be happy till every company is laying off thousands the dollar is in the tank and no country globally will want to do any business with the States. He is setting up to be pounded in the midterms and then get nothing through.
Apple is smarter than the orange man baby. They’ll tell him they’re building a facility in the US, and it’ll take 4 years until completion. By then all this nonsense will be gone.
Remember the “communist price controls” they said Dems wanted because they suggested something to prevent price gouging in emergencies? Looks now we get actual price controls. Dictator demands company sets lower prices and not pass the economy killing tariff tax to the customer(i guess he didn’t realize that’s how tariffs work) or face retribution. Great for stocks I’m sure
::Apple buys a bunch of Trump’s shitcoin:: “I’ve agreed to lower the Apple tariff to 10%, to be paid by the exporting country again! Apple put AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
I'm confused, so an American company already paying tariffs for import and export and passing that onto us is going to shift their entire business back to the US under threat of an increase to their bottom line which will just be passed on anyways instead of the huge increase of lost profit to making stuff we can't even produce here, while paying tariffs already just because, 'Merica...?
You can mess with a lot of things but don’t mess with Apple and their ecosystem. He is trying to kill Americans companies instead of building them up. Walmart eat the Tarriffs, Apple Pay the tariffs and in the end the American people will pay all these tariffs. If he gets rid of taxing your paycheck then maybe it could be a wash( but not really). Only 3 1/2 more years of him and hopefully things go back to normal.
Well Trump did figure out finally that tariffs aren’t paid by the other country but instead domestically. Fingers crossed he’ll finally get it into his little noggin that companies won’t eat those costs .
What he thinks, that factories can be ready to be brought up fully equipped and to start producing goods to be sold overnight … via 3D technology? Is he a genius?
So much for free trade.
ReplyDeleteI read an article that iphones will cost 3000+ US if manufactured in the states. Either Apple is going to take a huge hit in profits (unlikely) or common people won't be able to afford them.
ReplyDeleteA) it would still be far cheaper to just pay a 25% tariff instead of moving production to the US; B) they won't find the labour in the US to build phones; C) Americans hired to screw iPhones together won't be able to afford them
ReplyDeleteInside a factory in Alberta....
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/ljCls6TJunE
In Quebec we had a company named Bombardier. That company formally part of Quebec inc. Laurentian freeloaders, channeled out a lot of provincial and federal taxes.
ReplyDeleteApple is Steve Job’s great legacy channelled out to China.
Democrats are pro China emissaries.
Trump proposes the right agenda, but narcissist Trump is unfortunately Trump’s agenda.
If messiahs have to be leftists, I wonder what we’ll call the person who will lead westerners out of their decadence and back to common sense.
Someone needs to read “Apple in China” by Canadian Patrick McGee to Trump, since he does not read, so he may understand Apple is a captive of Chinese manufacturing and any move would take decades.
ReplyDeleteWesterners don’t manufacture what they consume and pro China globalist companies developed on their soil have zero loyalty.
ReplyDeleteTariffs should be temporary. The solution is a non spoiled workforce willing to become competitive.
We need governments to protect us from globalism, but the workforce must do it’s part
They are going to cost 25% more if they do move to building them in US... if I am Apple, why spend the money on the move ?? Am i missing something here ?
ReplyDeleteNo...Trump isn't rational.
DeleteNo phones are made in the US.
Apple is a globalist organisation…they use cheap labour offshore to manufacture products to be sold in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteName one phone made in the US.
DeleteApple phones made in the US ? what are the workers paid in Asia ? Will they pay them same in the US ? If not , this won't happen.
ReplyDeleteWill the yanks pay $3500 for a US made iPhone? Well, maybe the well to do. It would sink the company. That is the calculated cost of having one made in the USA. Apple clearly is not paying off Trump (or his family) for a pass. Pay Trump $100M and you're good to go Apple. That is a drop in the bucket for you.
ReplyDeleteWhat about my basement? I have a soldering iron and I'm short, so I am really close to the product
ReplyDeleteThey’ll cost too much to make in the U.S. so nobody will buy them. Apple is better off to keep building them elsewhere and tell the orange man to go another loon a tick rant!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSurprising that one can walk with one foot in one's mouth. Nevertheless, please read the excellent article (25 minutes long) by Adrian Humphreys, apparently published May 21, 2025. I hope it is republished so more Canadians and Americans can read about the reality of our relationship and how different people cope and keep hope for our futures
ReplyDeleteDoes Trump ever sleep, or does he sit up at night and pick who he is going to with next.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see Apple either pull it's products from the US, or have a US/rest of the world price. Something like: $3500 for a US bought iPhone, $800 for the rest of the world.
Many folks with his medical condition (the name of which is censored by the NP, in the name of "free speech") are unable to sleep, and actually think that their opinions are SO important that they MUST USE ALL CAPS. Sadly, many NP readers still love the convict :-(
DeleteEvery American company targeted like this should make Trump own his tariffs by listing them on invoices. For example Apple:
ReplyDelete$799.00. iPhone 16
$. 39.95. 5% state sales tax
$199.75. Tariff charge
Sadly, the convict has personally threatened any company that dares to tell the truth. So now, publicly listed companies have to lie to their shareholders. Y'all must be proud of your beloved convict, eh?
DeleteStock market manipulation at its finest by the biggest grifter the world has ever seen. Will never happen and Trump knows this. This guy belongs in prison for what he’s doing to USA consumers and company shareholders.
DeleteLucky for him he’s stacked the deck with loyalists at every level of federal investigation.
Also, the convict has fired anyone who does not like convicts. Not at all suspicious, eh?
DeleteToo late Donald, that ship sailed in the 90's. We sold our souls to the chinese then along with apple transfering all the tech then and now.
ReplyDeleteOnly a genius like Donald would think that a mega-corp like Apple can blow up their entire global supply chain and invent a new US-based one in a few months. The logistics and mechanics of it are unbelievably massive and complex.
ReplyDeleteAnd all to essentially double the price of their phone with American labor. Tim Cook will be crucified by his shareholders if he even returns Fat Donny's calls.
I guess those Apple fashion accessories are going to get even MORE over-priced now.
ReplyDeleteOh well...
The President of the USA is currently at war with all his Fortune 100 companies (the backbone of the USA economy), all his major trading partners & Bruce Springsteen. MAGA!
ReplyDeleteThere goes another 25% cost added to every USA consumer. Industry experts say it would take 10 years for Apple to shift production to the USA and then once established each phone would cost $3,500USD to purchase. (Not indexed for the inflation Trump is causing). Way to fight every single one of your Fortune 100 companies, their employees, shareholders and consumers Trump! MAGA!
ReplyDeletePoor old Donald, he’s obviously never experienced the grey market, which was everywhere in the 1970s. Cheaper is simply a way of life Donald, and your tariffs will have the opposite effect on the market, from what you think it will be.
ReplyDeleteSome say the US hasn’t the tech capacity to build just such plants in the US. I doubt that, but the notion isn’t without possible potential merit.
ReplyDeleteThing is Foxconn (for example) already has plants in the US. Trump wants to employ Americans. So like Honda or Toyota that build a ton of cars on the USA, employing many Americans - so could Foxconn.
I feel this tariff may very well be far more malleable than others, because it has another purpose other than to build local - to show China how the US can pull business back home, costing China employment, and income away from China.
The left is losing the mind about this, but have zero problem forcing companies to go green and say that the consumers won’t be affected.
DeleteOnly reason Apple makes iPhones abroad is because it’s still cheaper to exploit people than to have robots make your products.
I think this push for domestic manufacturing has a bet on a robotics boom soon too. We just need a ton more scale to make those things here. There will be employment and a net benefit to the economy but the number of people employed per factory (adjusted for size of factory lol) is going to be a lot lower than in the past. An increasing number of dark factories and a lot of heavily automated ones I’d bet.
DeleteAlso a lot of small manufacturing push is helpful for wartime capacity to rapidly scale drone manufacturing ala Ukraine but on American steroids.
Luckily, i was never a fan of the iPhone. Too pricy for such a little gadget
ReplyDeleteI much prefer Android phones like Samsung!
Calls iPhone pricey. Prefers Samsung which lasts 1/2 the time and costs just as much. 🤡
DeleteMy phone costs $350. And i can modify it. Giving that modifying phones is one of my passions, im not about to give that up for anything!
DeleteSo what does that have to do with a price of bread. Comparable Samsung phones cost the same amount. Yours is either old or not comparable.
DeleteI made a decision to stick with Android type phones. I can easily go with Motorola or OnePlus
DeleteStill spend $500 or less
And im not about to go foldable either, those crease!
Production cost in India vs USA means Apple would rather still make it in India and absorb 25% tariff than start manufacturing in USA. That said, Trump may not stop at 25%. Trump needs to surround himself with smarter people, not the dumb reactionaries he has right now.
ReplyDeleteIn China it's 20% Tariffs they will not further move to India
DeleteCosts are higher in China relatively atleast atleast 5%, and after investing so much they(apple) just can't back down, they may start packing them in us though
Delete20-25% of iphones will be Assessed in India
DeleteThat's where it is right now roughly. Given the pace of export growth it will likely grow beyond that especially as India starts producing more components.
DeleteApple hasn't said that, 25% is the limit, nothing more. We don't know when they'll stop moving production if ever.
They explicitly stated only US iPhones will be made in India and airpods etc made in Vietnam . Rest of the world's iphone is from China
DeleteSource?
DeleteAmerica takes up more than half the Iphone market. If India is supposed to exclusively export to the US then we'd ltierally get more than 50% of the total production.
35% is US
DeleteOh I misunderstood the statistic, yeah. 28% I think actually.
DeleteStill, you haven't given a source on Apple stating that they'd only use India for US shipments and don't plan to expand beyond that. They've stated they're planning to source from India mostly this quarter for America but not stated anything beyond that.
The specific quote from Tim Cook stating that “China would continue to be the country of origin for the vast majority of total product sales outside the US” appears in coverage of Apple’s Q1 2025 earnings call (February 6, 2025). The primary source is a Bloomberg article published on February 6, 2025, titled "Apple Earnings: Sales Top Estimates Despite iPhone, China Weakness." The exact link to this article is:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/apple-sales-top-estimates-despite-iphone-china-weakness
DeleteYeah I read this. This is referring to the June quarter.
Delete"For the June quarter, we do expect the majority of iPhones sold in the US will have India as their country of origin, and Vietnam to be the country of origin for almost all iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and AirPods products also sold in the US," Cook said. "China would continue to be the country of origin for the vast majority of total product sales outside the US."
This doesn't necessarily translate to long term plans.
It includes china as well..... Trump doesn't care if it's china or india...he wants everything to be build in usa.
DeleteSo, I found this
Delete1000×1,25=1250$, assuming 25% on the whole unit once and no carve outs.
Price to make 100% of the iPhone in America, assuming it is possible: about 2500$ to 3000$.
Not entirely sure about access to the raw matrials needed and I don't think there's enough trained engineers in the US anynore for all the high tech manufacturing.
Trump needs to put 100% or 225% tariffs in iPhone then it will match the price of American made iphone.
Absolute d*mb things is going on in USA now.
It's extra stupid because nobody in America wants those jobs. They have more vacant positions than they do unemployed people. And much of that is in manufacturing related jobs.
DeleteHe thinks manufacturing is the same as what it was in the 20th century.
I'm just glad that Indians will stop claiming that the Republicans were somehow better than the Democrats after all this.
Apple's profit will collapse.....trump and republican legislatures are funded by apple heavily....it's literally not practical. Its just arm twisting like the way he did with China last month.
DeleteHigh tech manufacturing? It’s more like low skilled assembling of components
DeleteSo apple still makes it in India, cheaper. Then passed the tariff cost to the American people. Still a win
DeleteThis is nothing but arm twisting for a better trade deal...he knows it's not feasible for Apple in any case. Senators will oppose this. Apple's profit will collapse if they shift the production to usa. Apple is one of the biggest donor of Republican party. Senators will kill him alive.
ReplyDeleteTrump thinks the world and India is still in 2019 where he left. India's current cabinet and PM Modi have survived deals against odds and hostility. The arms are stronger, probably Trump would face strong retaliation and Modi will hit exactly where it hurt the most, his technocrats.
Delete😂
DeleteTo manufacture Iphones, they need to employ around 1-2 million people.
ReplyDeleteAn avg wage in India would be around 3000-4000 dollars
In USA, its around 40000. This itself is a 10x increase in costs
25% aint gonna do shit
Tim Apple is cooked
ReplyDeleteI dunno. I think Apple gonna win this one.
DeleteYeah when the iphone 17 is 4k dollars in america and people are getting flights to mexico to buy it for 1/4 of the price
DeletePeople selling smuggled iPhones in trenchcoats on shady street corners.
Delete"Hey kid, you want an Apple watch? First ones free."
Region lock it, like Nintendo does with the Switch.
DeleteEdit: Apparently no region lock on Switch other than a Japan exclusive discounted model.
The Switch isn’t region locked. Half the games I own I bought in Japan.
DeleteHe's prolly talking about the Switch 2. Which will be region locked
DeleteAlso incorrect. (https://www.pcmag.com/news/nintendo-switch-2-price-cheaper-cost-in-japan-but-theres-a-catch)
DeleteOne model will be exclusive to Japan and region locked to prevent scalpers. There is no region lock for the rest of them. This is quite different from the old region locked days that separated PAL, PAL/E, NSTC U/C, and NSTC-J.
Oh, my bad. I thought they had a cheaper Japanese version and that they stopped USA preorders. That led me to believe they would implement region locks across the board. Appreciate the info
DeleteApple would be in favor of people doing this, it’s not a thing they imposed
DeleteIt doesn’t benefit Apple
DeleteYes it would. Apple just wants to sell phones. People finding ways around the tariffs makes it more affordable, which increases sales.
DeleteLmao just a hunch?
DeleteA hunch like the bellman of Notre Dame.
DeleteNah, he just needs to up the bribe extortion money.
DeleteNah just the american people who get to pay for it
DeleteWhen has apple ever lost? They get a huge fine and pay a little. They beat Qcom and the EU. Hate to tell trump but no smart phone is made in the US. But he only singles out Apple. Don’t see Apple losing to the orange man.
Delete"When has apple ever lost?"
DeleteLightning charger:
That is weak. They made tons off their chargers then changed. Don’t think I would consider that a loss.
DeleteTrumps moron supporters are already saying why does anyone need a new iPhone.
DeleteAmerica is cooked... Apple will be fine
DeleteIn what world does he need to care what trump thinks?
DeleteMarket manipulation
ReplyDeleteAgreed. President shitcoin is using the market like one of his failed casinos
DeleteYep. Clear as day.
DeleteOh, so other countries don’t pay the tariffs?
ReplyDeleteIt’s a tariff on one American company. I don’t know how that is legal
DeleteSomething being "illegal" isn't going to stop Trump or Republicans from doing it, and they control all branches of government. So at this point the only things that are illegal are being a Democrat, being a minority, or not bowing down to every Trump command.
DeleteMaybe I am misunderstanding the definition of tariffs, but wouldn’t this be just a regular tax? I thought tariffs or duties only implied to something that’s imported. Since, apple is supposed to pay this and apple is an American company, wouldn’t this just be regular tax (or some version of tax, besides duties or tariffs)? Are the purposefully avoiding using tax because they want to keep up the lie that they are trying to reduce taxes for the American people across the board?
DeleteIt’s soon going to be a personal tariff on Tim Apple.
DeleteTrump has no understanding of what is and isn’t legal.
Bro, you are almost 80, and Apple will still be here when your worthless corpse is rotting in the ground, next to your golden jet bribe.
ReplyDeleteAmerica is so racist, uneducated and hateful that they think this guy is going to save them from guys like this.
ReplyDeleteYou should go see what they say over on /trump sub it’s borderline hilarious/terrifying
DeleteMAO-GA?
ReplyDeleteYou Americans managed with trump to loose the race you were leading for the last 100 years..
ReplyDeleteWait, why is Apple paying the tariff? Don’t other countries pay tariffs?
ReplyDeleteiPhone to cost $2k soon
ReplyDeleteAin’t nobody paying that price tag. Even Apple fanboys will just keep their current iPhone and hope this will change in a couple years.
DeleteThey will.
DeleteThey said that about the apple vision too and looks how accurate that statement was.
DeleteWe will see. Lots of things are jacking up prices - video games, consoles, subscription services.
DeleteVery little point in upgrading these days anyway, we’ve reached peak pocket tech…
DeleteRight…. That’s the problem.
DeleteThey might or the phone carriers will eat some of the cost. They do now for you to switch. Phone plans will rise,Verizon will give you a phone for $200 ans Apple will sell a shit ton again. In the end we will pay for the tariffs
DeleteNah, Apple will just partner with AT&T and the other providers to do more "The Phone is Free *" and "Upgrade Any Time *" cellular plans.
DeletePeople already pay that much in other countries. Why won’t Americans pay. Indians pay 2x for an Iphone while having like less than 10 times the wage. Americans have this shit on easy mode for so long
DeleteNah. Apple will just invest a lot of money in Trump crypto and everything will blow over.
DeleteThis is why congress sets trade and tax policy (not the executive branch)! That type of policy can’t be set by the whim of one guy who’s rage texting at 4am…
ReplyDeleteOkay, so consumers will have to choose between paying 250 dollars extra for an IPhone made in China or 3000 dollars for an IPhone made in America? I wonder which one they'd want to choose.
ReplyDeleteThis is all a fantasy made up in Trump's head, by the way. I can't believe America gave this stupid bastard the presidency TWICE.
It's all an excuse to manipulate the market. He or his friends had short position on Apple this morning, guaranteed
DeleteFortunately so did I 😄
Got you beat, calls on OKLO...
DeletePretty sure the motto of a real republican is more goverment oversight and control of businesses. Exactly as Reagan wanted.
ReplyDeleteWho can forget Reagan's famous expression:
Delete"The ten most comforting words a person can hear: 'I'm here from the government, so do as I say.'"
An iPhone with a 25% tariff will still be cheaper than an iPhone made in the US… There’s probably a legit case for some increased tariffs but I’m so sick of him running around (well not running…) yapping like a third world dictator.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans would be screaming RADICAL COMMUNISM if this has came from a democrat president. Fucking hypercritical thinking
ReplyDeleteI thought the other countries paid the tariffs?
ReplyDeleteand Mexico is building the wall!
DeleteI dont mind the taxing corps, but the corps will just increase the prices
ReplyDeleteProblem here... They probably will just raise the prices overall in all markets, like Sony did
DeleteI’m hearing so many commercials on the radio about pre pandemic pricing for places. And I only listen to FM on short trips like to the store.
DeleteYou don’t tax the corporations, you tax the C-suite and board earnings instead. That’s how we fix this bullshit.
DeleteWhen I’m president, I’m going to pick out individual products that I personally don’t like and force companies to charge more for them. That’s the best way to manage an economy.
ReplyDeleteSo when is MAGA heading to the factories and fields to work? So far the MAGAts in my neighborhood are collecting welfare and not working…
ReplyDeleteThings that aren’t happening for $500
DeleteWhat, Trumpanzees not doing the work immigrants have in the field or working the factories? I completely agree with you.
DeleteTrumpanzees is my new term for maggats thank you
DeleteIt’s sadly an insult to chimps being associated with those subtards so I use it sparingly
DeleteChina won’t pay it.
ReplyDeleteIndia won’t pay it.
Even Apple, ultimately, won’t pay it.
The consumers—some of whom are elated thinking that Donald is “shoving it up the ass” of China, India, and Apple—are going to see their phones become more expensive simply because Donald says so.
Don’t want people talking about his coin dinner today
ReplyDeleteThe tangerine dream needs to get back on his meds. Won't be happy till every company is laying off thousands the dollar is in the tank and no country globally will want to do any business with the States. He is setting up to be pounded in the midterms and then get nothing through.
ReplyDeleteWell, on the bright side, a 25% increase in price is less than the price increase that would come from making the phones in the US.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh good ole centralized planning from the Republican Politburo. As American as hard boiled eggs and borscht.
ReplyDeleteWhat would it cost for Apple to move out of the US?
ReplyDeleteIsn't this the same guy that makes all of his products in China?
ReplyDeleteThis feels very antithetical to what capitalism is supposed to be.
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S NOT HOW CAPITALISM WORKS.
ReplyDeleteLet's elect a businessman, they said. JFC.
Biden tanking the market again, sigh!
ReplyDeleteDoge is saving so much the deficits only going up 4 trillion
ReplyDeleteTRUMP YOU ARE SO FUCKING INEPT IT HURTS
ReplyDeleteMust be paid by apple lol. That’s not how tariffs work
ReplyDeleteThis kinds of tweets 2 hours before markets open...
ReplyDeleteDon't negotiate with terrorists.
ReplyDeleteTrump says many things. Many if not all it is crap. This one is very shitty :D
ReplyDeleteSo, it will soon be cheaper to jump on a plane to Europe to buy your next iPhone.
ReplyDeleteCanada and Mexico flights are cheaper, or drive if you live close enough.
DeleteBig gubmint
ReplyDeleteHe says that Apple has to pay the tariff, but didn’t he say for months that tariffs were paid by the countries from which goods originated?
ReplyDeleteI wonder why again people are taking this guy serious. ðŸ«
ReplyDeleteThis is just stock manipulation by the most corrupt president in my long lifetime.
ReplyDeleteAnd how is apple going to pay for it while maintaining their margins??
ReplyDeleteThis is the literal opposite of the Republican ideology. Fiscal conservatives - defend your Trump vote, I dare you.
ReplyDeleteThere's no problem that cannot be solved by sacrificing one corporate airplane. Or by investing into some new crypto currency.
ReplyDeleteThe moron still thinks Apple pays the tariff.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought “they” were paying the tariffs, not us.
ReplyDeleteApple is smarter than the orange man baby. They’ll tell him they’re building a facility in the US, and it’ll take 4 years until completion. By then all this nonsense will be gone.
ReplyDeleteTempted to load up on apple stock here
DeleteWho cares all I need to know calls or puts like a true degen
ReplyDeleteLooks like more trading opportunity!
ReplyDeleteSoooo when do the CEOs gather in a high-tech cave lair and plan his exit?
ReplyDeleteI swear he sold all his stocks yesterday and bought put
ReplyDeleteI'll buy my slave labor phones through Samsung thank you very much
ReplyDeleteIf apple paid the tariffs on behalf of the consumer then the stock will fall and guess what? Still the working class that pays for it.
ReplyDeleteRemember the “communist price controls” they said Dems wanted because they suggested something to prevent price gouging in emergencies? Looks now we get actual price controls. Dictator demands company sets lower prices and not pass the economy killing tariff tax to the customer(i guess he didn’t realize that’s how tariffs work) or face retribution. Great for stocks I’m sure
ReplyDeleteAh yes, the visible hand.
ReplyDeleteWho the fuck wants a factory next to their house
ReplyDeleteTrump translator says: Tim Cook must give me more money.
ReplyDeleteI thought the Republicans were for free trade and yet they interfere more than dictators.
ReplyDeleteAbsolute useless piece of S. Can't make even one deal to save his life. F this guy.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s Tim Apple going to do?
ReplyDelete::Apple buys a bunch of Trump’s shitcoin::
ReplyDelete“I’ve agreed to lower the Apple tariff to 10%, to be paid by the exporting country again! Apple put AMERICA FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
I'm confused, so an American company already paying tariffs for import and export and passing that onto us is going to shift their entire business back to the US under threat of an increase to their bottom line which will just be passed on anyways instead of the huge increase of lost profit to making stuff we can't even produce here, while paying tariffs already just because, 'Merica...?
ReplyDeleteWhat?
Haha yeah no they won’t pay. We as consumers will.
ReplyDeleteYou can mess with a lot of things but don’t mess with Apple and their ecosystem. He is trying to kill Americans companies instead of building them up. Walmart eat the Tarriffs, Apple Pay the tariffs and in the end the American people will pay all these tariffs. If he gets rid of taxing your paycheck then maybe it could be a wash( but not really). Only 3 1/2 more years of him and hopefully things go back to normal.
ReplyDeleteSteve addressed this:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/steve-jobs-quote-on-american-manufacturing-still-applies-today/91181530
Remember when he said the countries pay for tariffs? He mustve been talking about us.
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ReplyDeleteAmerica’s Apple investment just tanked again thanks to the grifter rapist felon insurrectionist shitheel jerkoff.
I think it is just desserts for maga invested in aapl to open up their portfolio today and see another Trump attack on their life savings
AAPL under Biden: 245. AAPL under Trump Already $195.
Take $1,000,000 in Apple at $246 a share.
Under the grifter rapist felon insurrectionist fucknut your $1 mili is now worth 800k, a 21% trump haircut of $200k. And his hand is still out.
TALK ABOUT WELFARE queen. MAGA is what happens when math is just an opinion
For the 3958572273585838th time. Apple won't be paying the tariff. Consumers will
ReplyDeleteThis is not how that works as products actually are paid by customers.
ReplyDeleteComplex and mysterious, I know, but I hope there is some advisor who can help with this topic.
Good bye iPhone. I’ll keep my current one then
ReplyDeleteSo china isn’t paying the tariffs like we were promised?
ReplyDeleteThe US markets are becoming a joke.
ReplyDeleteWell Trump did figure out finally that tariffs aren’t paid by the other country but instead domestically. Fingers crossed he’ll finally get it into his little noggin that companies won’t eat those costs .
ReplyDeleteWhat a nob. Someone needs to explain supply chains to him.
ReplyDeleteWhat he thinks, that factories can be ready to be brought up fully equipped and to start producing goods to be sold overnight … via 3D technology? Is he a genius?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like it's expensive US iPhones for America then. I'm sure Apple won't let it effect the bottom line.
ReplyDeleteI thought the countries paid the tariffs Donnie boy. What happened?
ReplyDeleteWell we know that Brandon wasn't a dictator . He wasn't even running the country. You voted for a mummy with cancer 😂
ReplyDeleteStill cheaper than making them in the US. Lol! Orange Hitler really knows nothing about production or supply chains.
ReplyDeleteSo everything is down because Trump's playing government market with apple?
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the 50% tariffs on the European Union!!
ReplyDeleteHere we go!!
ReplyDeleteEvery time he gets an accused corruption like trump coin he comes out with big news to distract the news.
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