I think he is proposing that to gain a negotiating stance from the Chinese. He has to know that in the end, that would destroy our economy. People would simply buy less whether we had to pay the tariff OR pay higher wages here in the USA>

There is no way to "bring back the jobs that went to china"- unless americans get off their entitled asses and work for the wages the Chinese get- OR figure out how to automate and robotize to get the efficiency up.

We have worldwide labor competition now, and to keep jobs here, our people have to be competitive, period.

So I just spent the weekend doing the end of the year paperwork (under threat of fines and probably jail time) for our employees, so the government can tax them (and our company). A month ago, I spend time successfully defending a labor board issue brought up by of all people- an illegal alien employee. A few months ago, I had to defend our company against the unemployment agency who wanted to charge our UI account for an employee who quit last year and then got laid off by THAT employer after a couple of months and is sitting home collecting $326 a week for half a year.

No wonder I want to outsource from China. None of these problems!!

This fellow trump is demonstrating his lack of business knowledge which I find amazing, but then again he is probably just a spokesman for trump enterprises while others actually have run and built his company. that gives him the qualification to be pres. since he will be the spokesman for who ever really runs the country. He will tell us if pres why we are going down hill versus making us great again. As for dictating to apple; trump can dream on.

"That's not how jobs work today."
It usually is though. A large amount of the economy is underground. People who have something to sell / buy come together with or without the blessing of the gov't.

That's not how jobs work today. In modern society it's helping one another plus the red tape of government telling you how to help, how much you can help, and who you're allowed to help. If you're going to try and rig the game you can't half ass it, either let the market be free or take responsibility for messing it up.

"we gotta bring back the jobs from China, we gotta bring back the jobs from Japan and all these countries that are ripping us off"
Yet another politician talking as if jobs were some scarce commodity in short supply. Jobs are just people helping one another for money. Trump has it completely wrong. There is no limit to the ways creative motivated people can find to help one another in mutually agreed trades.

Thumb the nose and pay the high tarriffs if HRM Donnie gets his way. Higher prices for goods for consumers and more taxes for the fedgov to waste on more unconstitutional laws. Lower volume of sales will defintely affect Apple's bottom line.

Maybe it's Trump's way of getting Apple to fund Hillary's campaign.

And HRM Donnie claims higher tarriffs are the solution. Another brilliant idea from the king of the casino.

The 'story' is that labor costs are moving the jobs to China -- but Chinese plants are more and more automated. It's really regulatory costs and delay.

Lord knows how long it would take to build a new plant in the U.S. with all the regulatory delay.

Apple will thumb its nose at such as it should.

Not a problem. Price has never been an obstacle to those buying Apple products. How much Samsung stock does HRM Donnie hold, I wonder?