The tone increases between Donald Trump and Apple. This Friday, the US president threatened the additional fiscal company if he did not decide to do the iPhone in the United States.
“I informed Tim Cook from Apple a long time ago, that I expected the iPhone sold in the United States to be manufactured in the United States, and not in India or elsewhere. If that is not the case, Apple will have to pay at least 25% of customs tasks in the United States” warned Trump in his social network.
From the announcement of customs tariffs on Chinese imports, Apple had decided to redirect the devices built in India to the United States, at the risk of displeasing President Trump.
This announcement comes a week after a new warning. “I told Tim, we treat it very well. We have accepted all the factories he built in China for years,” said the president on the occasion of his trip to the Gulf.
The fact is that a repatriation of the manufacture of an iPhone in the United States would be complex and expensive. Analysts are inclined to a sale price of $ 3,500 by smartphone if necessary to build it in their country of origin.
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Source: BFM TV
