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The idea is for Trump to encourage manufacturing to grow in the US.

There are regulatory hurdles to making a manufacturing plant in the US however: minimum wage, safety regulations, etc. etc. So it will be more expensive if made in the USA.

Alternatively, things can become like the Car industry. Where certain parts are manufactured outside the US, while the final car is manufactured inside of the US. Toyota has a major presence in the US.

I'm not saying I necessarily agree with it, but it helps to understand at least why Trump's supporters support Trump.

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'Q:What does China's competitive edge look like in practice?'

'A: One example from The Times article: When Jobs decided just a month before the iPhone hit markets to replace a scratch-prone plastic screen with a glass one, a Foxconn factory in China woke up about 8,000 workers when the glass screens arrived at midnight, and the workers were assembling 10,000 iPhones a day within 96 hours.

'Another example: Apple had originally estimated that it would take nine months to hire the 8,700 qualified industrial engineers needed to oversee production of the iPhone; in China, it took 15 days. Anecdotes like that leave you "feeling almost impressed by the no-holds-barred capabilities of these manufacturing plants," says Edward Moyer at CNET News, "impressed and queasy at the same time."'

From: https://theweek.com/articles/478705/why-apple-builds-iphones...

Don't forget that changes has a billion more people.

s/changes/china/

For some reason I can't edit the obvious mistake I made.

Likely you unfortunately just missed the end of the two-hour edit window.

Shucks. TIL.

The American populace won't ever take the jobs at the pay required for building the products in America to be viable for businesses.

The products would be more expensive, which less consumers would be able to afford, meaning even less demand.

American companies are also likely to start heavily looking at using robots or other devices to help with building and the tooling required because that is the only way to drive costs down, but that requires an up front investment that is difficult to justify to the shareholder when it's easier to ship it overseas.

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