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saarek said:

“designed and built in the United States.”. I think that most people, even Americans, would consider that wording to mean that a company came up with the design in the USA and that said company then manufactured said device in the USA for sale.

However, I suppose one could say that designing the phone by selecting parts already on the market and then building the phone by having the various parts put together in their final stage in the USA would, technically, qualify.

I mean, if a person ‘designed’ their own prefab house from, say, Sweden, by using a website that lets them pick and choose parts. And then that person arranged for a local builder to put it all together they could claim that they “designed my own house and had it built by a local builder.”

To be fair, a lot of the iPhone is not really custom either. From the displays to usb c ports, much of the device is available to other companies from the same manufacturers.

entropys said:

I think it fair to say that the USA has contributed far, far more to the ledger than Western Europe. There are tens of thousands of yank dead in European cemeteries that suggest otherwise. As a distant observer, I would suspect that Europe resents that, as it does resent all uppity former colonies that have done well. But the USA most of all.
my own country just has the general 10% tariff applied, so I reckon we won’t notice it. The risk for us is our massive trade surplus with China (that surplus means China has us by the short and curlies), the reverse situation for China with the USA (which will have China by the short and curlies). If China contracts and stops buying our minerals, well….