Wesley_Hilliard

ssfe11 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ssfe11 said:

Maybe I’m missing something but Tim meeting with Trump and in Feb and then both announcing the 500b US investment has total exemption written all over it. Again am I missing something? Would welcome comments. 

You're missing the fact that the President said yesterday that there were no exemptions.

And, you're missing that the $500 billion investment wasn't new investment, and instead was already-announced projects and business as usual.


No I think you are getting it wrong Mike. Trump 1.0 he also said no exceptions to tariffs until Tim talked him out it. Second trump is under the impression the 500b is def new money(maybe it is only Apple knows) because he brought it up again yesterday. Tim is the savviest CEO out there. He walked away with a 500b tariff exemption. It’s just pathetic fear has caused irrationality. No way there is not going to be an exemption and Trump will use some excuse like”well Apple needs to make money to pay the 500b” to justify it. 

mike_galloway said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

mknelson said:

realjustinlong said:

Now that the tariffs are in place and are clamping down on immigration I am sure we should see companies starting production in the US in the coming days if not hours. /s

I saw your /s…

The US is only 4.22% of the world's population, Building production capacity and training people in the US would take decades. Most companies will try to weather the Trump term and hope things return to normal.

The rest of the world will likely look at the 95.78% of the world's population and find our own way.

There are lies, damn lies and then statistics. This 4.22% number is one of those. USA is the wealthiest country in the world. So even though the population is only 4.22% of the world, but its economy is much more significant 26% of the world economy. So, no, rest of the world cannot ignore what is happening in USA. Rest of world is also impacted by what is happening in USA. I agree with your other point though.

Is not the point of tariffs to reduce this 26% as it is a large trade imbalance with the rest of the world funded by debt.

It would appear to me useful if US consumers would bear the brunt of this transition by reducing their imports, which is what tariffs should do, painful though it will be.

CheeseFreeze said:

Guess Tim Cook needs to pay Trump more money to get on the exception list. I mean, the US is the most corrupt nation in the world, why not go full in?

phoenix1386 said:

It is always amusing to see sites such as this one do what they do, even if seems completely supine. I’ve always wondered why. Are they paid by Apple to use ‘serendipitously’ in a headline? Why not just say the fact? Why add a qualifier aimed at making it look like it was sheer luck? 

You think the CEO of Apple doesn’t know what’s coming from the White House that affects his company? Oh, the naïveté. 

applesauce007 said:

I thought only the finished Apple products were imported to the US.
The parts should ship directly to the factories and bypass tarrifs.
The only tariffs are for the final products imported to the US and Apple could absorb that or get it waived.
Moreover Apple could have stocked up before the tariff announcements and the tariffs may be over before stock is depleted.

So it is not sooo bad for Apple.

The market makers are just messing with Apple stocks.