Yes, but using automation instead of labor.

IMO all this talk about should is statism. Central planning. Apple should make phones where they want to. If people don't like it they can voice their displeasure in the market. That said, I think people in the US like the idea of making stuff here more than the reality.

I haven't fact checked this but I do not doubt the person that said it that US manufacturing measured by output is at an all time high. Doesn't match the thinking of most people including me. That's measured by output. Not jobs though. Automation is how it comes "back to the US". Not with human labor.

There's plenty to complain about with the trade agreements made by globalists but the answer isn't being anti-free trade as some seem to think. The answer is sound money. Bitcoin fixes this.

$IMO$

I don't believe it.

for the following reasons:

• "Made in the USA." It was always a seal of quality and guarantee to last many years. (All these companies no longer manufacture with that vision) now they do it with a "fast" vision for consumption to be massive and constant.
• To achieve massive consuming products and constant consumption, they must make them of lower quality so that their life time is less and the consumer must acquire another product very soon. (That need for cheap manufacturing, is what I carry companies outside the US)
• Taxes and bureaucracy. Within the US, companies must have greater responsibility with their workers in many aspects. which translates into greater expense in the labor mass. Outside the US, companies allow them to manufacture their products with cheap and poor labor, which allows them to obtain greater income and greater flexibility in terms of taxes, regulations and other important aspects.

These are just some possible reasons.