The price of the iPhones could climb with the arrival of the duties. It is not clear of how much. From the first analyzes it seems that the cost could reach 2,300 dollars for the United States market. However, if the iPhone was produced directly in the United States, the price could be much higher.
Donald Trump’s plan is that of report industrial production in the United States. There are two roads: bring back the factories that have relocated outside the country and convince foreign companies to invest in the American territory. On Chinese social networks they begin to circulate The first memes. American workers in the assembly line that assemble series products surrounded by sad music. Among these products there are also the iPhones.
What is still not clear is the cost of all this operation. The reason why US companies have delocalized is simple: in other country, manpower costs less. Over the years, however, another factor has also been associated with the cost of labor: the countries that have become manufacturing have developed skills, spaces and processes for guarantee mass productions to foreign customers. Certain. With the 90 -day stop set at the moment, everything still remains to be decided. China aside.
Let’s take the case of the iPhones, one of the products that in case of duties risk seeing grow their cost more. To produce an iPhone you are not only needed materials but also specialized technicians, process engineers, factories that must be built in spaces that must be found. In short. A supply chain that could make the cost of the iPhones rise well beyond those 2,300 dollars which has been discussed these days.
How much an iPhone will cost after Trump’s duties: the first analyzes on new prices
How much it can cost an iPhone produced entirely in the United States
The question that merges in these days is easy. How much it would cost an iPhone produced entirely in the United States? At the moment if you look inside the charging socket of your iPhone you find written only “China”. The formula that is often found in Apple products, on the other hand, is “Designed by Apple in California Assembled in China”.
There are several analyzes circulating on the price of an iPhone “Assembled in California”. Dan IatsGlobal Head of Technology Research at the Wedbush Securities, told Newsweek that an iPhone built in the United States could also cost 3,500 dollars. Counting that in the United States the iPhones cost less than from us we talk about Increase equal to more than double the price.
In 2018, when the prices of raw materials were lower, the investor Glenn Luk he had set the cost of an American iPhone in a range between 30,000 and 100,000 dollars. Practically the same price range of many Tesla models. Net of the fact that the same analysis would now give other results, the problem concerns precisely the Apple production capacity.
iPhone is a product that also sells 200 million units per year. If the factories in the United States will not be able to produce such a quantity at the same time, the iPhone risks becoming comparable to a Luxury good.
