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It won't happen in the short-term, because it takes time for manufacturers to move their entire base of operation to another country and disrupt the supply chain.

In the longer term (3+ years), it's possible. Companies are too greedy though. Once the incentives are gone, they will be back to slave labor in China and Vietnam and people in the US will still wonder where all the jobs went.



AFAIK US has enough prisoners in slave labor to produce the iPhone.




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