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Nicholas Gordon

Why reviving U.S. tech manufacturing is harder than you think

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“Millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones. That kind of this is going to come to America.”

That was U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s pitch in April for the Trump administration’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, the most radical shift in U.S. trade policy since the 1930s.

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