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发帖数: 1415 | 1 It is a common misconception that China, where the iPad is assembled,
receives a large share of money paid for electronics goods. That is not
true of any name-brand products from U.S. firms that we’ve studied. The
breakdown of value in these two iconic Apple products shows why.
First, our assignment of profits (which exclude wages paid) to first-tier
suppliers is based on the location of their corporate headquarters. There
are no known Chinese suppliers to the iPhone 6 or iPad. The iPhone and iPad
are assembled in mainland China factories owned by Foxconn, a Taiwan-based
firm.
That means that the main financial benefit to China takes the form of wages
paid for the assembly of the product or for manufacturing of some of the
inputs. Many components, such as batteries and touchscreens, receive their
final processing in China in factories owned by foreign firms. Although
hard facts are scarce, we estimate that only $10 or less in direct labor
wages that go into an iPhone or iPad is paid to China workers. So while
each unit sold in the U.S. adds from $229 to $275 to the U.S.-China trade
deficit (the estimated factory costs 4
of an iPhone or iPad), the portion retained in China's economy is a tiny
fraction of that amount
http://pcic.merage.uci.edu/papers/2011/Value_iPad_iPhone.pdf |
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