You create a Foreign Trade Zone, ship your components there and manufacture there...you don’t pay tariffs on those Chinese components.
Now the idea with political cronies/tech start ups that can raise SV funding, they will create one and turn around and offer manufacturers the opportunity to use the zone for their manufacturing (a la the Uber of Foreign Trade Zone/Free Trade Zone)
Edit: Just checked, and as one might expect Apple already operates out of Foreign Trade Zones
That is actually rather clever, and will probably work for many smaller US manufacturers but it will still cause them to have to raise their prices slightly, as there is now another middle man they have to pay.
However enterprises like Apple will still find it cheaper to move to China.
VC may be reluctant to invest in such startups due to the fact that the current administration has been, how shall we put it...inconsistent? They are just as likely to revoke the tariffs in a month as they are to change the goods covered under it or expand it. Either change could make such a startup completely obsolete in no time at all.
You create a Foreign Trade Zone, ship your components there and manufacture there...you don’t pay tariffs on those Chinese components.
Now the idea with political cronies/tech start ups that can raise SV funding, they will create one and turn around and offer manufacturers the opportunity to use the zone for their manufacturing (a la the Uber of Foreign Trade Zone/Free Trade Zone)
Edit: Just checked, and as one might expect Apple already operates out of Foreign Trade Zones