Carrier Corporation move to Mexico

On February 10, 2016, Carrier Corporation, a division of United Technologies, announced that it was moving its manufacturing operations to Mexico. A cellphone video shot by an employee and posted on YouTube rapidly went viral, making this particular plant closing a national news story, after which Donald Trump made the company's decision to move to Mexico, "a centerpiece of his stump speeches attacking free trade." The move played a role in Trump's presidential campaign that year as a symbol of his protectionist position on international trade, and the same year, played a lesser role in the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.

Shortly after becoming president-elect, Trump and vice-president elect Mike Pence announced a deal with Carrier to keep some of the manufacturing jobs in Indiana, while others would still move to Mexico, in exchange for large tax credits granted to the corporation.

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