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Originally Posted by SaintessHeart
I thought Apple products are made in China. So they ship it to US for warehousing and launch, then ship it back to China again, resulting in the import increase?  |
It will be a great news for consumers if everything assembled in China is counted as domestic product. I don't know if they ship these things outside then inside for the Chinese market, but what I do know that we pay tariff for everything with a foreign brand from Nike shoes, IBM/lenovo laptops (yes, you read it correctly, LENOVO laptops) to ipad and iphones. As a result, the domestic price is actually higher than those on the US or HK market, so it is actually lucrative business for smugglers. I have heard explanations such as that we need to pay extra since the patents (the design or high tech processors etc.) are held by foreign nations. But I don't know how credible such explanation is.
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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
It's Taiwan, not China  |
You'd be correct you meant component such as mother boards. But for the assembly, it is definitely in China.