You are an economic advisor to another country, and your President wants you to look into attracting Apple to move their iPhone production to your country. You need

to understand what the production process is currently. You know that Apple is an American company, but is that the whole story? Is the iPhone really American made? Although Apple is an American company, majority of the products that it creates are not made in the USA. Read the following article and view the diagram of all of the different countries involved in the production of the Apple iPhone. Explain how the iPhone is a product of the global economy.

Armed with this knowledge, you need to find out what France's economic strengths and weaknesses are so that you can develop a plan to attract Apple to move to your country.

Your iPhone: Made in China, Korea, Texas, Kentucky, and ... Inner Mongolia?

A lot goes into making an iPhone: Gorilla Glass, an A6 chip, circuit boards, the accelerometer, various other components, transistors, wires, and connectors. And then there's the software on top of that.

As we know, Apple relies on manufacturers in China, such as Foxconn and Pegatron, to assemble its iPhones. That's not just for cost savings: Apple needs the speed that Chinese manufacturing affords to be able to make quick changes to its production lines in order to ramp up the next-generation iPhone, and it needs their reliability and volume to deliver 31.2 million iPhones per quarter.

But assembly is just the last chapter in the story. Before those factory workers can assemble all those components into an iPhone, someone has to make those components. As it turns out, those parts come from all over the world ? including China's Inner Mongolia, where most of the rare earth elements needed to make the screen, the glass, and the speakers come from.

The folks at FinancesOnline.com and Ruby Media put together this impressively tall infographic showing where the iPhone's many components come from, based on sources such as the New York Times, ChosunIlbo.com, Cnet, and the Alliance of American Manufacturing.

Apple typically doesn't disclose a lot of these details, so some of the information here is guesswork. But this is the most extensive look at the complexity of the iPhone's supply chain I've seen yet. It's a great snapshot of the interconnected, global electronics manufacturing industry.

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