President Donald Trump is pressuring Apple to move iPhone manufacturing from China to the United States. But supply chain experts say the plan faces massive barriers built over decades.
The iPhone is assembled from around 2,700 parts, involving 187 suppliers across 28 countries.
Today, less than 5% of its components are made in America.
High-tech parts come mainly from Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, while final assembly is centred in China.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said this month that “an army of human beings” would now build iPhones in America.
But analysts warn a U.S.-assembled iPhone could cost up to $3,500, far beyond current prices.
Apple's choice to remain anchored in Asia goes beyond cheap labour.
Experts say China offers speed, flexibility, and world-class scale unmatched by any U.S. alternative.
Final assembly is dominated by Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm with sprawling facilities in China.
Its Zhengzhou iPhone City alone cost $1.5 billion to build and employs 350,000 workers at peak.
Apple is gradually expanding production in India, aiming to diversify risk, but moving full operations to the U.S. would require rebuilding complex supplier ecosystems from scratch.
TechInsights estimates assembling an iPhone costs Apple just $10 per device today.
Ripping up supply chains would erase those efficiencies overnight.
Despite Trump's calls, Apple is seen as highly unlikely to move iPhone assembly to the U.S., according to analysts.
The entrenched networks across China and Southeast Asia are simply too vast, too specialised, and too embedded to replicate quickly.
Apple’s iPhone production remains a symbol of the global economy’s deep integration—one that tariffs and political pressure alone cannot undo.
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President Donald Trump is pressuring Apple to move iPhone manufacturing from China to the United States. But supply chain experts say the plan faces massive barriers built over decades.
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Pakistan’s defence minister said on Monday a military incursion by India was "imminent" following last week's deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir that killed 26 people.
Four children were killed and several others injured when a car smashed into a building during an after-school programme in Chatham, Illinois, on Monday afternoon, police said.
President Donald Trump is pressuring Apple to move iPhone manufacturing from China to the United States. But supply chain experts say the plan faces massive barriers built over decades.
Negotiations in Cairo to secure a ceasefire in Gaza were close to a "significant breakthrough," two Egyptian security sources told Reuters on Monday.
Power began returning to parts of Spain and Portugal late on Monday after a massive blackout paralysed both countries, grounding flights, halting public transport, and suspending hospital operations.
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