{"id":2438404,"date":"2025-05-23T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-tariff-threat-to-apple-is-about-bringing-back-precision-manufacturing-bessent\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:48:07","slug":"trumps-tariff-threat-to-apple-is-about-bringing-back-precision-manufacturing-bessent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-tariff-threat-to-apple-is-about-bringing-back-precision-manufacturing-bessent\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s tariff threat to Apple is about bringing back \u2018precision manufacturing\u2019: Bessent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-tariff-threat-to-apple-is-about-bringing-back-precision-manufacturing-bessent%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2438404&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent statement on Fox News, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed President TrumpS 25% tariff threat against Apple, which would take effect if the company does not relocate its iPhone manufacturing back to the United states.Bessent emphasized that this move aims to restore &#8220;precision manufacturing&#8221; in the U.S., particularly highlighting vulnerabilities in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-commerce-secy-making-chips-in-u-s-can-ease-shortage\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s commerce secy.: Making chips in U.S. can ease shortage\">semiconductor supply chain<\/a>, which is crucial for many of Apple&#8217;s components.Trump communicated his expectations directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook, expressing dissatisfaction with production in countries like India. Bessent acknowledged the complexities involved in shifting high-tech manufacturing but noted that Apple has already begun diversifying its supply chain away from China.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump&rsquo;s tariff threat to Apple is about <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >bringing back &#038;lsquo<\/a>;precision manufacturing&rsquo;: Bessent<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2129089\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/treasury-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Treasury<\/a> Secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/scott-bessent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Scott Bessent<\/a>&nbsp;said Friday that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s threat of a 25% tariff against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Apple<\/a> if it doesn&rsquo;t move iPhone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/manufacturing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">production<\/a> to the United States is about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/flailing-espn-reaches-into-its-past-set-to-revive-the-sports-reporters-report\/\" title=\"Flailing ESPN Reaches Into Its Past, Set to Revive \u2018The Sports Reporters\u2019: Report\">bringing back &#038;ldquo<\/a>;precision manufacturing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president is trying to bring back precision manufacturing to the U.S.,&rdquo; Bessent said during an appearance on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>America&rsquo;s Newsroom<\/em>. &ldquo;I think that one of our greatest vulnerabilities is this external production, especially in semiconductors, and a large part of Apple&rsquo;s components are in semiconductors.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3420466\/trump-transcripts-removed-white-house-website\/\">Trump transcripts removed from White House website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3420461\/hegseth-defends-pentagon-prayer-service\/\">Hegseth defends Christian prayer service as &#8216;long-standing tradition&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/3420467\/north-dakota-governor-accidentally-vetoes-35-million-housing-budget\/\">North Dakota governor accidentally vetoes $35 million in housing budget<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;So, we would like to have Apple help us make the semiconductor supply chain more secure,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share.php?id=2949964&amp;userid=11311&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=1b70147bd6f0e160a519bbd2fa34ae21\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump announced the tariff threat in a post to Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhone&rsquo;s that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S. Thank [you] for your attention to this matter!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The move came after Trump and Bessent met with Apple CEO Tim Cook this week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3420384\/trump-apple-tariff-25-percent-phones-built-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP TO TARIFF APPLE 25% DIRECTLY IF PHONES ARE BUILT IN INDIA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It takes time to move the production facilities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-purge-has-begun-where-it-stops-nobody-knows\/\" title=\"The Purge Has Begun. Where It Stops, Nobody Knows.\">high-tech companies<\/a>, according to Bessent, and the U.S. will have to assess what is realistic for Apple.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know from company to company,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I do think that Apple started moving a big portion of their supply chain out of China during COVID when China proved to be an unreliable partner.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2129089\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2129089\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s tariff threat to Apple aims to restore &#8216;precision manufacturing,&#8217; says Bessent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2644,"featured_media":2438405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24216576003615-scaled-1024x681.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50972,55794,16957,3634],"class_list":["post-2438404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-apple-2","tag-precision-manufacturing","tag-tariff","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24216576003615-scaled-1024x681.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2438404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2438408,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2438404\/revisions\/2438408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2438404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2438404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2438404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}