Trade group estimates Trump's push for 100% US-made tech could cost firms $230 billion

A technology industry trade group has estimated that an aggressive push to require 100% US-made technology could cost tech firms as much as $230 billion, according to a report by Ars Technica.

The estimate, attributed to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), relates to a reshoring effort described as part of a broader push under President Trump to bring more technology manufacturing back onto US soil.

Reshoring technology manufacturing, particularly for complex products with globally distributed supply chains such as electronics and computing hardware, is widely viewed by industry analysts as costly and logistically difficult to achieve quickly, given the specialised components and manufacturing capacity concentrated in other countries.

Trade associations such as the CTA periodically publish cost estimates and industry analyses to inform public debate over policy proposals affecting their member companies, and such figures are often used by both supporters and critics of a given policy to argue their case.

Ars Technica's report does not detail the CTA's full methodology for arriving at the $230 billion estimate or specify a timeline over which the reshoring push would be expected to take effect.