ByBill Toulas-January 5, 2019.595 Trump wants Apple to return to the United States and build new production facilities there. So long as the cost of doing so remains too high, Apple is unlikely to do such a thing. For many hardware manufacturers Taiwan is the next China, particularly Us brands. Trump has launched a trade warApple might get stuck in the middle-hardware makers investing in India’s intomanufacture flagship iPhones to reduce the high import cost. Trump continues to follow strict and pressing policies on all fronts arguing that the results will eventually validate his choice of strategies, but there are still no substantial financial incentives for Us companies to convince them to move their manufacturing units home. Considering that the cost of building sufficient lines from the ground up in the Us remains very high, most of them continue to find that sustaining overseas production is a better and more financially feasible scenario, even with the introduction of Chinese import taxes and tariffs.