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Trump's Planned Tariffs on Imported Steel and Aluminum Would Likely Apply to Apple Products
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You are confusing sales tax, and possibly what Apple decides to charge extra in other countries with tariffs. IPhones are manufactured in China and thus would not be subject to any tariffs to bring them into China.
One car uses about as much steel as 40,000 iPhone X. So if the iPhone X goes up one cent, a car built from imported steel would go up by about $400.
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At the worst time, suicide rate at Foxconn was about the same as the rate of retail employees in the USA being murdered. So Foxconn put up nets to prevent people from jumping off the roofs - and it worked. San Francisco has refused for many years to do anything, and has started work on barriers in 2017, after 1600 deaths at the Golden Gate Bridge. (And there are about 20,000 gun suicides a year in the USA, but who cares about that).
Dormitories are really nice for employees who come from the country side for a year or two and want to go back home with the largest amount of cash possible. They don't come to work in a factory for forty years - they come for a year or two and return home with huge savings. I can understand that "savings" is a very strange concept to Americans, but that's what they do in China.
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I think we can all agree that the USA have the president that they deserve.
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At the worst time, suicide rate at Foxconn was about the same as the rate of retail employees in the USA being murdered. So Foxconn put up nets to prevent people from jumping off the roofs - and it worked. San Francisco has refused for many years to do anything, and has started work on barriers in 2017, after 1600 deaths at the Golden Gate Bridge. (And there are about 20,000 gun suicides a year in the USA, but who cares about that).
Dormitories are really nice for employees who come from the country side for a year or two and want to go back home with the largest amount of cash possible. They don't come to work in a factory for forty years - they come for a year or two and return home with huge savings. I can understand that "savings" is a very strange concept to Americans, but that's what they do in China.
I feel really bad for people who watch CNN and believe everything those talking heads shout at you. Over a year of "MUH COLLUSION" and all you have is 13 people with no addresses who spent $300,000 on Facebook ads. But hey, you do you.
Take a look at the ads and see for yourself if any of them won President Donald J. Trump the election. One attacked Trump and a bunch were pro Bernie. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/us/politics/russia-2016-election-facebook.html
No need to play that game. It isn't about "collusion" at all, in fact. This is simply the storyline promoted in the right wing disinformation bubble to justify not acknowledging what it is actually about, and also to rationalize supporting a person of zero moral character who the rest of us can easily see has surrounded himself with liars, criminals, and close buddies of the world's leading kleptocrat.
Sure it’s dreadful. And that’s something their country has to address. Suicide is a big problem in parts of Asia. I’m sure you know about the situation with suicide in Japan for example.
It’s “we can do it all” attitude that is ruining Great Britain right now re: brexit. Fact is some countries have better natural resources, different economies, different work attitudes. Global economy is for the best and it’s continually changing….. right now we use China for manufacturing but once we used Taiwan.... japan.... Brazil.... the way this is going the US could be the worlds next factory country. Lol
Not really no.
What tariffs are you talking about? I'm buying Apple's crap at a ridiculous USD to EUR conversion rate in Germany and Apple pays an absurdly small amount of taxes from my purchases to top it off. It's just Trump being silly. He has a history of not seeing his position of privilege and complaining that the world is somehow unfair to him (see interviews from years ago).
750 grams ~ 2 pounds, 58 grams ~ 2 ounces.
AFFECT, not APPLY TO.
If anyone is worried, you can stop. POTUS changes his mind every time he turns around.
Yet if President Obama did this, I am sure all the liberals would have been fine with it. They would never admit it publicly, however, I bet most would come up with an excuse to defend Obama's policies.
I think President Trump's plan will benefit the United States!
It is time we stop getting absolutely screwed over by other countries!
I think President Trump's plan will benefit the United States!
It is time we stop getting absolutely screwed over by other countries!
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Chinese products are mostly junk. Those are the facts. You’ve experienced it and so have many others. I also remember a time when stuff used to last a while. Not any longer. We should tariff the living daylights out of Chinese garbage products. Fine with me.
God he's such an idiot. To the rest of the world, please know that the vast majority of my country hates this clown and we're more embarrassed than you could possibly imagine.
It’s probably been said already, but if the tariff were on raw materials and not on manufactured goods, any company in America producing goods with high steel/aluminium content would have to consider this: is it now cheaper for them to move manufacturing offshore so that the tariff is not applied to their goods.
(Granted, Apple may or may not manufacture enough products in America to consider the above. But other companies might.)
(Granted, Apple may or may not manufacture enough products in America to consider the above. But other companies might.)
It's so weird that he was elected to the Presidency considering that the "vast majority of the country hates this clown".
Almost weird enough that it would seem that the statement is false.
Sure I have.
What argument are you trying to make?
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It's so weird that he was elected to the Presidency considering that the "vast majority of the country hates this clown".
Almost weird enough that it would seem that the statement is false.
Maybe “vast majority of the world” is more accurate?
https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dca6b853-aa0a-4743-b014-88a6b66cd8bc
Electrolux have cancelled expansion / investment plans due to the steel tariffs:
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...-plant-trump-tariff-aluminum-steel/391059002/
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ne...-plant-trump-tariff-aluminum-steel/391059002/
It's so weird that he was elected to the Presidency considering that the "vast majority of the country hates this clown".
Almost weird enough that it would seem that the statement is false.
No, it checks out. The majority of voters picked someone else. And he's less popular today than he was then. The majority dislike him.
Trump is the crowning achievement of our collective political idiocy. He blurts out his, half baked diversion claiming to be a good idea, then boasts how easy trade wars are to win. How much damage will we allow this conman to perpetrate upon the country before we sack him?
I think you’d be mistaken to believe that.It's so weird that he was elected to the Presidency considering that the "vast majority of the country hates this clown".
Almost weird enough that it would seem that the statement is false.
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He stated that the "vast majority" disliked him, not the "majority" as you stated. Two different things.
Not to mention, you do remember that at the same point of Barry's presidency that the majority of Americans unapproved of him also don't you? You do know that that is a historical trend that is common with most Presidents don't you?