Apple Inc. AAPL 0.13%‘s offshore manufacturing of iPhones and MacBooks recently came under fire from Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump.

In a speech at Liberty University, Trump singled out Apple and said that if he were president, he would make Apple “build their damn computers in this country.”

Apple and many other major tech companies currently outsource much of their manufacturing to China and elsewhere.

Despite the patriotic intentions, it’s unclear how Trump would be able to back up such a claim, even if he were president. Even if new legislation were passed requiring U.S. companies like Apple to manufacture domestically, the change could pose a major threat to the balance of international markets.

In addition, the relative shortage of qualified-but-not-too-qualified U.S. workers and the much higher production cost that would be associated with domestic production would likely pose…

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