Trump's metal tariff will not directly affect Apple (or any other smartphone manufacturer), then, even if they cause significant chaos in the cost of aluminum and steel. generally. But the tax rate of 10 percent for Chinese goods has previously announced maybe There is a direct impact on the price you pay.
About 80 percent of the world's phone was manufactured in China, and while Apple has transferred some of its production and assembly. IndiaMillions of iPhones are still produced by Foxconn in factories in Shenzhen and Trinh Chau.
The tax rate is 10 percent, like it stands, will Applicable to these phones. And according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the American public will have to pay the price.
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Tariffs are tools to resolve trade disputes, not political negotiations for problems such as immigration or drug control.
That can explain why Apple's stock price falling Three percent after the Chinese tariffs were officially announced. But even with those tax rates right now, they still do not cause sudden increase in US iPhone prices. According to analysts, they may not even lead to a 10 -percent jump in September when the iPhone is announced.
An increase in 10 percent for consumers will be a pills that are hard to swallow in the quiet economy. Therefore, it is possible that all 10 percent may not be transferred to the final consumer or negotiated at that time, Mr. Nabila Popal, a senior research director at the market intelligence company IDC said.
Although Chinese tariffs have been 'trapped' so far, it may also be possible to change. Especially with Trump, anything can change at any time.
These tax rates are the starting point for negotiations that Apple is familiar with. The company was exempted from duty exemptions in Trump's first term, with Tim Cook even sent Trump a Mac Pro 6000 dollars after the fees on the additional import costs of the components of the components of the components of the components of the components of the components of the components The line is exempted. This can help explain why Cook is very clear at the inauguration this time, or why he donated $ 1 million to Trump's opening fund.
Popal Apple, and other technology giants, closely cooperated with the US government to overcome special exceptions, according to Popal. We have seen Trump grant Apple's exception from the Chinese tariffs in the past, so I wouldn't be surprised if it happened again.
Produced in the United States?
Of course, Trump's public rhetoric measures around the tariff are, partly, they are an effort to regenerate industrial industrial in the United States. The phone may be small potatoes in the larger metal industry, but these taxes and tariffs like they can really encourage iPhone and other smartphones to be manufactured in the United States?
A somewhat lazy answer for that, is that they will pay many times, thanks to the higher salary of the US, a consumer costs that they simply do not want to pay.