Honestly? Yes, I do. I think they will pass the cost on to consumers. Because if you look at it either their competition will also be manufacturing their products abroad, and will be subject to the same tariff, or they will be raising the prices of their U.S. made products about 20% because after all they can do that and still compete with UTC products.
No wrong, wrong because no CEO in their right mind is going to move their operations to Mexico and then pay a tariff. If others got caught with their pants down and moved off shore pre tariff then Carrier reaps huge profits and increased market share. They get rewarded for pro American and pro Nationalist behavior. These are greedy bastards we are dealing with here. Tariffs are a naked play at altering corporate behavior. They also generate good revenue and can relieve some of the income tax burden on individual filers but that is another issue altogether.