Why can Trump not to expel Apple from China

Consequently, the transfer of production to the United States will require years if not contracts of investment coordinated in automation, tools, infrastructure and training. Foreign component manufacturers stimulating it will also be a challenge as well.

“If you are a Chinese supplier that makes a certain type of ingredient that can also be used in Huawei or Xiaomi, you have got influence,” said Mohan. “The incentive to separate these factories is low, because you get a scale and efficiency in China you will not get if Apple is your only supplier.”

Understanding in politics is another problem, according to Tesay. “The American system is as it is, where everything can completely turn everything every four years, does not lead to business investment. When people and companies make investments, they must have a longer horizon than that.”

Mark Randal was the first Vice President in Motorola when she was owned by Google and looking to build the American smartphone factory. He says the idea was not impossible, but “I knew it would be very difficult.”

He says that the costs of US employment required to convert raw materials into ready -made goods are “much higher” than anywhere. The United States, for example, has a shortage of mechanical tool engineers. In order for a tremendous shift in the manufacture of electronics to the United States, “We are talking about the need for tens of thousands of them.”

Randal adds that the customs tariff creates a “nightmare” when modeling the costs of a new factory. “This is why most companies do not make short -term reactions to the type of changes that we see today. They should be super strategic and know where you are in the long run.”

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The only component of the touch screen is currently in America is the cover, which Corning produced from the long -term Apple company in Kentucky, although the company also has facilities in China India.

But the OLED screen that helps to keep the battery life and a multi -touches that allow the screen mostly by Samsung In South Korea.

The basic electronic parts that make the screen are functional with the display unit in the production facilities in China, before moving this component to the Foxconn Factory to be combined with the rest IPhone.

the metal framework accurately Pick up the challenge to removal China from Apple Supply series. to most Models, the casing He is Cut and appearance from A roadblock to Aluminum Use High -precision Computer numerical Control (CNC) Machinery.

Wayne Lam, an analyst at Techinsights, says the operation depends on an “army” of these machines, which Apple sellers in China spent in the collection of years that cannot be reproduced elsewhere. “If Apple will produce iPhone on the beach, there will be no CNC machines that they can buy to meet the Chinese ecosystem scale,” He says.

“This is a specialized skill that falls next to the impossible to repeat it outside China,” Lam added.

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But it is a lifting of the process that summarizes the challenges that the company will face if iPhone production is transferred to the United States. Apple’s design, which is different from many other brands for smartphones, is not used, glue to connect the frame, and analysts say it is more expensive for Foxconn to employ people to do the sun rather than investing in automatic solutions.