Apple is considering to make iPhones in the USA after Donald Trump’s win in the USA presidential election raised the concern of a crackdown on American companies those manufacturing products abroad.
Apple is producing iPhone in the Taiwanese company Foxconn. The Foxconn has a large assembly in China. Foxconn has been asked to study how feasible it would be to move production of iPhone in the USA.
Before winning the election, Trump was criticizing Apple over its products which are being built in abroad and also vowed to increase 45 percent import tax on Chinese goods.
Every year Apple produces over 200 millions of iPhones and the company already making some high-end MacBook computers in the US, but shifting iPhone production in the USA is a costly task.
The first effect moving iPhones production to the USA will limit the production because Foxconn alone doesn’t make all parts of the iPhone, these parts come from the various country and assembled in Foxconn factory.
According to the source, assembling the iPhone in the USA would increase $30 on each unit including transportation.