> prices might be a little higher I was curious about this, so I found a somewhat recent study that looked at how much it would cost for an "all-american" iPho

> prices might be a little higher I was curious about this, so I found a somewhat recent study that looked at how much it would cost for an "all-american" iPhone. The authors of the study think it would cost about $30-40/phone to do final assembly in the US (with Chinese and other foreign components), and sourcing all-US components would add another $30-40/phone. What is only lightly mentioned is the many, many billions of dollars it would take to build all of those production lines domestically, which makes it a non-starter. I could easily imagine it costing hundreds of billions of dollars. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601491/the-all-american-iphone/ https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601491/the-all-american-i...