Again. You don't actually want to do that. You pretend to want to.
Unless you mean Central America and not California.
In any case, it would be much more costly to ship stuff out of Central and South America. There isn't nearly the infrastructure there and even at the coasts, there aren't the type of ports you would need.
The economic principle of Marginal Cost comes into play, too. If thirty companies manufacture stuff which ships out of Hong Kong or Shanghai, those thirty companies split the cost of the shipping. It's much more costly to roll production as a single entity. Supply Chain Logistics are an extremely fickle thing.
Also, to be clear, I'm all for your suggestion, I am just trying to indicate some of the hurdles. If you pulled all the production out of China, who is to say the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars sitting in Chinese banks aren't frozen? It's an autocracy. It's also a HUGE market. China could say, "No more Apple products allowed in the Country." Then the stock price drops 35% over night. You might not care about that, but Big Business Republicans do, and that's your answer.
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It's not apples and oranges, it's apples and aircraft carriers.
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