iPhone increases US-China trade deficit by $2 billion

Getting consumers in the US to let go of their money is actually counterproductive if it adds to the trade deficit. For the same reason, economists who use Walmart sales as an indicator of US economic health are making a sad mistake. The correlation is negative, not positive.
http://www.prime-targeting.com/us-china-trade-imbalance/

America is the only super power I know that exports it's intellectual property to China and then whines about it being stolen. Invest in America or have your children get used to being China's indentured servant.

China and USA'S people are liking iphone this new deal with them.Actually the main thing of this makeover is that which trade deficit numbers has provide for them.. It was good sign to unconventional trade.
http://www.experts123.com/users/20891/mariaantonietta

The one thing I've never understood about Apple - why don't you manufacture their product here, in addition to boasting that it's 'designed in California.'

They'd add to our economy.

They'd have more control over the leaks that drives them crazy.

Be more AMERICAN.

"lower price. fast shippment . higher quality"...from China I presume.

You know it's not so much the labor costs (which don't even take to account the relative health costs on the workers to produce technology @ that scale) but even an environmental one.

You think making all those beautiful retina displays isn't hurting the ecosystem? The toxic waste has to go somewhere - it's good a thing for us China doesn't care or we wouldn't have $299 iPhone 4's.

The irony here is the Foxconn employees I know we exploit, view their situation as "indentured servitude." And point to the fact that the United States fought it's bloodiest Civil War to end such cruelty and injustice.You don't read their perspective here because when you work in a brutally sadistic Communist regime of child slavery, that jails Nobel Peace prize winners. Freedom of speach to post is against the law. So go back to sleep America. Your government has everything under control. Go back to watching your American Idols. Your children are entitled to all the cheap, toxic products they can consume

Isn't that exactly what they said above?

"the actual figure is a lot less because the iPhone is only assembled in China, not designed there. While the wholesale price of an iPhone is $178.96, the value of the only truly "Chinese" part is assembly, valued at $6.50 per unit. But because the iPhone ships from inside China, the entire value gets added into the trade figures..."

Alex
I think Brian was alluding to spoilt Americans not wanting to work for the wages that an assembly line would pay, which, as an American, I should find offensive, but as an adult, I find humorous....

These stories are killing two birds with one stone: anti-China talk (which is popular) and anti-Apple talk. Apple has been a success recently taking the thunder from other mega-corporations such as Microsoft and that makes Apple a target for negative PR. Where is the publicity on this for Microsoft? Many thousands do coding work for Microsoft Windows and other software in China and India and not to mention millions of units of Microsoft hardware being made in China as well. These mega-corporations like Microsoft and their sheep-like followers are feeding these stories out. It is part of the war in the world of commerce.