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The guts of an Apple iPhone show exactly what Trump gets wrong about trade

  • Written by Jason Dedrick, Professor of Information Studies, Syracuse University
The components of an iPhone add up to a different cost than the phone itself.Poravute Siriphiroon/Shutterstock.com

Crack open an iPhone and you’ll begin to see why President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with China doesn’t make sense.

On paper, imports of the popular smartphone and other goods from China look like a big loss to...

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