“CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday he’s not convinced China will boycott Apple as part of the trade war with the United States,” Berkeley Lovelace Jr. reports for CNBC. “The Communist Party’s official People’s Daily warned on Tuesday that Apple and other U.S. firms could be vulnerable as ‘bargaining chips’ for Beijing.”
“Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of Apple, argued that China’s threat is like ‘playing with fire’ and that Apple remains one of the largest employers in the country,” Lovelace Jr. reports. “President Donald Trump is attacking what he sees as unfair trade on a number of fronts. Trump has asked his trade representative to consider increasing the proposed levies on $200 billion of Chinese goods up to 25 percent.”
“As refreshed trade-related concerns have driven stocks lower,” Lovelace Jr. reports, “Cramer has previously said all he sees is ‘endless buying opportunities.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: The tariffs are not the end game. They are bargaining chips and, due to the trade imbalance, the U.S. has 376 billion more chips with which to play than China ($506B – $130B). Hence the empty rhetorical threats from China’s state-run media. China’s running out of chips already.
This initial negotiation phase too shall pass. The end result will be better than the starting point.
The United States is insisting that all countries that have placed artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs on goods going into their country, remove those Barriers & Tariffs or be met with more than Reciprocity by the U.S.A. Trade must be fair and no longer a one way street!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
I’m cognizant that in both the U.S. and China, there have been cases where everyone hasn’t benefited, where the benefit hasn’t been balanced. My belief is that one plus one equals three. The pie gets larger, working together. — Apple CEO Tim Cook, March 24, 2018
At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment. — Thomas Sowell, June 14, 2006
SEE ALSO:
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What trade war? Markets shrug off US-China dueling tariffs – July 6, 2018
U.S. President Trump puts tech in trade war crosshairs with planned curb on China investment – June 25, 2018
The Trump administration told Apple it would not place tariffs on iPhones assembled in China – June 19, 2018
Chinese stocks end at 2-year low, Apple suppliers sink on trade-war concerns – June 19, 2018
Why Apple CEO Tim Cook is acting like tech’s top diplomat – June 18, 2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t expect a full-blown trade war between the U.S. and China – June 5, 2018
President Trump and Apple CEO Cook meet at White House with trade the focus – April 25, 2018
Apple CEO Cook to meet with President Trump – April 25, 2018
Why Apple stock can withstand a Chinese trade war – April 5, 2018
Apple CEO Tim Cook heads to China as President Trump orders 25 percent tariffs on up to $60 billion in Chinese imports – March 23, 2018
BoA Merrill Lynch: Apple is prepping a ‘foldable’ iPhone; U.S. and China trade tensions not an issue for Apple – March 23, 2018
Designed in California. Assembled in China. How Apple’s iPhone skews U.S. trade deficit – March 21, 2018
President Trump blocks Broadcom-Qualcomm deal over China concerns – March 13, 2018
Elon Musk sides with President Trump on trade with China – March 8, 2018
Analyst: President Trump’s tariff impact on Apple would be just a ’rounding error’ – March 7, 2018
China holds all the cards, if Apple continue to make everything in China, shouldn’t the split be 1/3 China, 1/3 USA, and 1/3 Europe going forward, Apple has the cash to make it happen.
China actually holds very few cards relative to the U.S. and they know it.
WTF? China owns USA. If China and Europe decides that they will not borrow more money to USA you are screwed.
Uhm, no.
Delusional trumpanzee as usual. You thumb your nose at the upcoming superpower and cowtow to Russia, an economy 1/13 the size of China.
This doesn’t look like a country that “holds all the cards.”
China may have to resume U.S. soybean purchases in weeks: Oil World
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soybeans-us-china/china-may-have-to-resume-u-s-soybean-purchases-in-weeks-oil-world-idUSKBN1KS1GT
Go President Trump…Apple be Dammed!
MDN: All in for Rush Limbaugh and all in for Donald Trump. Sad!
China holds over 1 trillion dollars of the debt from Apple’s home country. That’s a lot of chips.
US government is over 20 Apples in debt?
1 trillion is = 1 apple 🙂
Oh that had me laughing. I don’t know the exact number of debt but yeah it’s huge. So much borrowing.
What the hell is Trump gibbering about? The US uses a massively disproportionate amount of the world’s resources and holds a massively disproportionate amount of the world’s wealth. Not doing too badly.