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Tim Cook’s ‘Long Arc of Time’ Prepared Apple for the Trade War
Tim Cook’s ‘Long Arc of Time’ Prepared Apple for the Trade War · The Wall Street Journal

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The iPhone is exempt from the White House’s latest escalation of the trade war with China, the Trump administration quietly announced late Friday. At one point, Apple had lost almost $800 billion of market value after Trump officials claimed imposing sky-high tariffs on Chinese-made goods would shift iPhone assembly to American factories. Instead, President Trump blinked—again.