Throughout the supply chain for evaluating product components, Chinese companies remain at the lower end of the value-added spectrum, earning meagre margins and low processing fees. According to the Adb report, the export price of an IPHONE (3G) is about $179, and the cost of assembly in China is about $6.50. In other words, the value-added value of an IPHONE in China is only about 3.6% of its export price. Obviously, as the world's second largest economy and the world's factory, The development of China's manufacturing industry is still backward, low technology content, low profit margin.
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IPhone components are mostly manufactured in China