{"id":26937,"date":"2025-05-01T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26937"},"modified":"2025-05-01T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:24:52","slug":"apple-would-be-worth-half-as-much-if-it-stopped-manufacturing-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26937","title":{"rendered":"Apple Would Be Worth Half as Much If It Stopped Manufacturing in China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Several years before Donald J. Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Mr. Trump first campaigned for president by promising his supporters that he would force Apple to make those products in America.<\/p>\n

Nearly a decade later, little has changed. Instead of bringing its manufacturing home, Apple shifted some production from China to India, Vietnam and Thailand. Almost nothing is made in America, and an estimated 80 percent of iPhones are still made in China.<\/p>\n

Despite years of pressure, Apple\u2019s business is still so dependent on China that the tech giant can\u2019t operate without it. Moves by the Trump administration to change Apple\u2019s behavior risk damaging the world\u2019s most valuable publicly traded company. And any serious effort to move Apple\u2019s production to the United States \u2014 if that is even possible \u2014 would take a titanic effort by both the company and the federal government.<\/p>\n

In the four days after President Trump announced taxes on Chinese exports of 145 percent last month, Apple lost $770 billion in market capitalization. It regained some of those losses after Mr. Trump gave consumer electronics manufacturers in China a temporary reprieve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On Thursday, Wall Street analysts expect Apple to report that sales increased 4 percent in the most recent quarter, partly because people rushed to buy iPhones before the tariffs kicked in. The report offers Wall Street analysts an opportunity to grill Apple\u2019s chief executive, Tim Cook, about the risk of future tariffs, price increases and the company\u2019s future in China and the United States.<\/p>\n

An Apple spokesman declined to make any company executives available for this article. The company said this year that it would invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and begin making artificial intelligence servers in Houston in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Several years before Donald J. Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Mr. Trump first campaigned for president by promising his supporters that he would force Apple to make those products in America.Nearly a decade later, little has changed. Instead of bringing its manufacturing home, Apple shifted some production from China to India, Vietnam and Thailand. Almost nothing is made in America, and an estimated 80 percent of iPhones are still made in China.Despite years of pressure, Apple\u2019s business is still so dependent on China that the tech giant can\u2019t operate without it. Moves by the Trump administration to change Apple\u2019s behavior risk damaging the world\u2019s most valuable publicly traded company. And any serious effort to move Apple\u2019s production to the United States \u2014 if that is even possible \u2014 would take a titanic effort by both the company and the federal government.In the four days after President Trump announced taxes on Chinese exports of 145 percent last month, Apple lost $770 billion in market capitalization. It regained some of those losses after Mr. Trump gave consumer electronics manufacturers in China a temporary reprieve.On Thursday, Wall Street analysts expect Apple to report that sales increased 4 percent in the most recent quarter, partly because people rushed to buy iPhones before the tariffs kicked in. The report offers Wall Street analysts an opportunity to grill Apple\u2019s chief executive, Tim Cook, about the risk of future tariffs, price increases and the company\u2019s future in China and the United States.An Apple spokesman declined to make any company executives available for this article. The company said this year that it would invest $500 billion in the United States over the next four years and begin making artificial intelligence servers in Houston in 2026.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26939,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26940,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26937\/revisions\/26940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}