I don't see iPhones being made in the US anytime soon, there are many places in Asia other than China that would be higher up the list than the states.
I don't think any other Asia countries has same scale of labor, supply chain and infrastructure to manufacture the goods with tremendous demand like iPhone. It's not just cheap labor, it involves a whole manufacture ecosystem.
Taiwan, Japan, Korea all have the infrastructure and expertise. China is a huge market, but iPhones still are considered imports because they are built in SEZs anyways.
Yeah. I don’t think it’s likely that production would come back —though not impossible.
That said the main point is Foxconn could move production to other manufacturing centers, if need be, though it would need some transition period to avoid disruption.
I don't see iPhones being made in the US anytime soon, there are many places in Asia other than China that would be higher up the list than the states.