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Update 04/14/2025:The weekend saw some good news with regard to tariffs and iPhone 17.U.S.
However US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has since confirmed thatthis is only temporary.
Heres what you oughta know.
How could planned tariffs affect the cost of iPhone 17?
The pause and general uncertainty means that prices arent likely to go up immediately.
No company is going to jump the gun and increase prices on their phones unless they absolutely have to.
Once its gone, and tariffs are in effect, then the replacements will end up costing more.
Both analysts noted that the actual impact of these price increases may not be so severe for phones.
So when youre spreading the cost of a thousand dollar phone over 2-4 years, things arent as noticeable.
If you add $200 to $1,000 phone, that’s 20%.
Are there any loopholes to get around the tariffs?
Despite the mockery U.S Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnickdefended the decision.
Since Singapore is only subject to the blanket 10% tariff.
You send that to the U.S. thats not gonna sell through with what you expected, Reith said.
Could iPhones be manufactured in the U.S.?
The most obvious way to get round tariffed goods is to buy domestically.
The problem with iPhones and other phones is that there are no American-made alternatives to choose from.
Small-scale production could happen in around 3 years, provided everything goes according to plan.
Mass production could happen in 5 years as a best case scenario.
The short answer is no.
But whatever happens, theres no way 100% of iPhone production could happen in the country.
Its really about that final assembly.
However Reith noted that this is a time-consuming process that cant be done overnight.
He believes that small-scale production could happen in around 3 years, provided everything goes according to plan.
Mass production could happen in 5 years as a best case scenario.
Greengart told me that, In the short term, reshoring consumer electronics manufacturing to the U.S. is impossible.
Even if you could recreate entire consumer electronics supply chains in the U.S.
However he caveated this by pointing out such a move would be enormously expensive to build from scratch.
The price we pay in September will be affected by what tariffs are in place at the time.
Thankfully Apple isnt necessarily going to have to almost triple the prices because of that 145% Chinese tariff.
