So yeah, that's not going to happen.

You really want manufacturing jobs back in the States? Easy 2 prong solution:

1) Import 3rd world workers
2) Enact 3rd world environmental protections

There you go. And as a bonus, your $99 iPhone will still be available!

But it's a great idea!

If we put tariff's on the Apple XXIV made in China, the Tariff is against China. I do think it is a good idea, but it would not work or be implemented for that reason.

Instead of Tariffs, any corporation with headquarters in the US that manufacturers things outside the US could be taxed ten thousand dollars for every employee outside the United States to defray the costs to our economy when they ship jobs overseas. Any corporation that moves a manufacturing facility out of the country could be taxed the equivalent of a years wages on every job and the estimated benefit for the community.

We can also make a law that no federal government bureau can buy so much as a paper clip that is manufactured outside the US. This same legislation could be passed in states.

Finally, fair wages should in all countries in the world should be US foreign policy. The US should recognized and encourage Unions that work across national borders.

I went to salary.com and search the pay scale for manufacturing jobs and picked boilermaker because that was first (feeling lazy). The median salary for a senior boiler maker is almost $54,000 and the 75th percentile is over $62,000 so I think we should tax them more than it would cost them to hire a U.S. employee, how about $100,000 each? That way, it would be financially beneficial to bring the job back home instead of just hurting their profits slightly by keeping the job overseas.

They should pay the cost to the community for leaving.

Desktop manufacturing is poised to eliminate a huge amount of the remaining manufacturing jobs left in this country. Those jobs that got shipped overseas aren’t coming back because of this, as well as automation in general becoming much cheaper to deploy.

Rethink Robotics invented a $22,000 humanoid robot that competes with low-wage workers.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/509296/small-factories-give-baxter-the-robot-a-cautious-once-over/

3D printing may put global supply chains out of business
http://www.zeitnews.org/natural-sciences/materials-science/3d-printing-may-put-global-supply-chains-out-business

If America ruled the world, it would be pretty easy to impose one-sided trade relations so that companies were forced to employ Americans in preference to people in other countries.

Thankfully, it doesn't. As a result, tariffs mean tariff wars; C.F. Hawley-Smoot and the great depression.

A 10% decline in the value of the dollar vs. our trading partner's currencies is worth 5 million or so manufacturing jobs.

Samsung phones would be far less expensive than Apple phones.

Dell and HP PCs could not compete with Acer, Asus, Fujitsu, Samsung, and Toshiba.

of the free traders. Globalism depends on a minimum of tariffs. For the US, that means that our high-cost of manufacturing is a negative for sales outside of the US, but a plus for good imported into the US.

It's all pretty complicated, though, and not as simple to characterize as that simple explanation.