Here’s hoping Trump is telegraphing a done deal he just can’t announce yet. Hard for me to believe otherwise.
Move is not scheduled until April, 2017. By then he may have renegotiated trade putting Carrier back in a competitive position, leaving the playing field level or possibly in favor of US production incentivizing competitors to move back.
AC is critical here in Florida and I can tell you that the new refrigerant requires much more pressure to operate and is far more prone to leaking ... The components used have to be the highest quality to last any respectable amount of time in use,, I don’t know if Mexican production can do it reliably.
Is Carrier building a new plant, or expanding existing facilities in Mexico? It seems like a “move” would be a hard thing to reverse, halfway into it.