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Apple is under direct pressure from President Donald Trump, who is back in the White House and demanding that the tech giant shift its iPhone production into the United States — or face tariffs of 25% or higher. Trump made the threat in a public post, saying the company would be punished if it keeps building its devices outside the country. Right now, most iPhones are built in China, though Apple has been slowly expanding production into India. The challenge is that this isn’t a light switch you flip. It’s a massive operation, and building something like that in the US isn’t going to happen quickly. Barton Crockett, a senior analyst at Rosenblatt Securities, said Friday on CNBC’s Squawk Box that it’s basically impossible under the current timeline. “This tariff asking them to do something that is pretty well nigh impossible to do, to make iPhones at scale in this country, is not going to happen in an investable time frame, and certainly not while Trump is president,” Barton said. He added that Apple is “working really hard” to figure out what kind of response they can offer that won’t destroy their business model. Apple may try symbolic moves, not real shifts Timmy Cook’s company has been a constant target as Trump ramps up his push to bring factory jobs back to the US Even though Trump gave a temporary tariff waiver in April for iPhones and computers — including those made in China — Apple has no clear sense of what will happen after June. Barton believes they can’t stay silent for much longer. He speculated Apple might move a small part of production to America just to calm things down, maybe a limited site that builds a few thousand iPhones, with some robotics R&D on the side. “If…

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