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I'm getting a disconnect, and also no response other than BCCs. Now I'm wondering if I am missing something, or if we all are:When Apple China sells iPhones in China there should be no tariff applied right ? When Apple China sells iPhones back to the USA there should be tariffs applied right ?This is the part of the trade imbalance I never understand: that it includes multinational American companies located in China. So they operate as domestic companies, branch plants of US Corporations, but the profits to back to their US corporations.This is why I'm wondering how much of the trade imbalance actually helps blue chip American companies.
This is why I'm wondering how much of the trade imbalance actually helps blue chip American companies.
You already got Apple's $18B, but there's also Boeing at $12B (13% of all its revenue), Caterpillar (21.5% of revenue), and several others that sells processors to tech companies (Intel, Texas Instruments etc). Their stocks all fell today.http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/04/news/companies/china-tariffs-us-multinational-sales/index.html
But the mindset of the Chinese has always been that they'll get away with anything and everything they can get away with. They know that the attention of western politicians is fleeting, and will make pleasing sounds and agreements until their attention is on something else and then go right back to doing what they were doing.
your posts on this subject, per your norm, lack any cite/substantiation... and broader knowledge. China has a vested interest in (further) forging its relatively new membership within the WTO... reinforcing its compliance. In that regard the U.S. has leveraged the WTO dispute mechanism to bring complaints against China forward... in some of those complaints, to secure significant changes from China. For all your unsubstantiated charges against China, has the U.S. brought actual complaint forward to the WTO - if not, why not?
Boeing now has plants in China, but more to the point China needs new aircraft, lots of them, and there's no other supplier who can pick up the slack if they don't buy from Boeing. There's airbus, but that would mean years of waiting on top of the time they're already waiting.
The US prohibits bringing knockoffs into the country. Canada doesn't for personal use, you just aren't supposed to resell them.I think knockoffs are more of a problem for the unwary consumer than they are for manufacturers.
What about Bombardier? They may not have the larger international planes, but China must have a large demand for regional jets.
China wants aircraft that carry large numbers of people. Have you seen what their highways look like? Bombardier's smaller regional jets carry far fewer passengers. Besides, China has really been laying down the track for its expanding high speed rail service. That tends to lessen the need for regional aircraft.