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White House insists iPhones will be US-made – but Apple calls it a non-starter
Experts doubt Trump line that tariffs and company’s $500bn investment will shift manufacturing from Asia
The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, told reporters during Tuesday’s briefing that the president believed Apple’s recently announced$500bn investment, as well as increasing import costs sparked by his trade tariffs, would encourage the company to ramp up manufacturing in the US. The problem, according to experts, including Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, and his predecessor, the late Steve Jobs, is that the US does not have the workforce of other nations where the vast majority of its electronics are currently manufactured, such as China, which makes about 85% of iPhones, India and Vietnam. They say it puts out of reach a vision presented by Howard Lutnick, Trump’s commerce secretary, to CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, of Apple, and other tech companies, tapping into “the tradecraft of America” to get its products made.
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