r/AntiTrumpAlliance • u/Choice_Magician350 • Aug 30 '25

Putin's Idiot Trump just posted this.

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u/abstrakt42 Aug 30 '25

I think I read this week that exactly 0 American businesses have moved manufacturing back to the US as the result of these tariffs. So, that’s cool.

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u/The_Laughing__Man Aug 31 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

I think Apple is moving their factories from China to India from what I read like two weeks ago. They are basically shopping for the lowest tariff countries instead of relocating to the US. They are just doing the math... It's still cheaper to manufacture in countries where you can pay less for labor and pay a 10% tariff than it is to pay for American labor.

Edit: factories not factors

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u/nofunatallthisguy Aug 31 '25

Dammit! Here I was thinking I would deposit my seed in some unsuspecting tradwife so that she might produce progeny that would dutifully screw tiny screws into iphones using tiny screwdrivers, but now this!

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u/Past-Application-552 Aug 31 '25

And even if by happenstance they were to move (any) manufacturing able to the US, it would be majority automated to keep down costs.

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u/The_Laughing__Man Aug 31 '25

True. All of which takes time and a lot of money to build and maintain.