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Your IPhone Is Already Made in America
An obsession with where Apple’s devices are assembled distracts from the more important issue of who creates the most value.
What's in a label? Not a lot.
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It wouldn’t take much for Apple Inc. to have U.S.-sold iPhones made outside China.
Foxconn Technology Group, the primary assembler of the devices, said Tuesday that it has enough capacity to make all iPhones bound for the U.S. outside of China if necessary. Apple hasn’t given the Taiwanese company such instructions, a senior executive of Foxconn’s listed flagship Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said.