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After Donald Trump’s election, the flow of manufacturers setting up shop south of the border dwindled to a trickle.Ford Motor Co. and Carrier Corp., caught in Trump’s Twitter crosshairs, scrapped plans to move jobs to Mexico in two very public examples of the slowdown.

But now the pace is picking back up.Illinois Tool Works Inc. will close an auto-parts plant in Mazon, Illinois, this month and head to Ciudad Juarez. Triumph Group Inc. is reducing the Spokane, Washington, workforce that makes fiber-composite parts for Boeing Co. aircraft and moving production to Zacatecas and Baja California. TE Connectivity Ltd. is shuttering a pressure-sensor plant in Pennsauken, New Jersey, in favor of a facility in Hermosillo.

While Trump hasn’t stopped pounding his America First bully pulpit, and the future of Nafta remains uncertain, “there’s cautious optimism and a hopeful attitude that cooler heads will prevail in Washington,” said Ross Baldwin, chief executive officer of Tacna Services Inc., which facilitates relocations.

Baldwin has seen the evidence: After business ground to a halt back in November, he’s now juggling two Mexico-bound clients. San Diego-based Tacna helps manage 4,500 workers in Mexico, where factory wages are about a fifth of those in the U.S. That may explain why Mexican manufacturing jobs rose 3.2 percent in January from a year ago as they dropped 0.3 percent in the U.S.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/americans-jobs-headed-mexico-once-100000109.html

 

 

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Born To Slay

I can't say I'm surprised, he didn't actually do anything, so I don't know why anything would actually change.

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Trepadation

yas, people won't want to continue business for someone who doesn't get along with others, hopefully more businesses temporarily do this to force trump to be cool with mexico

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JustinTrudeau

Wow, look at Trump doing hard work to prevent this. /s :madge:

I fell down the stairs once as an actor.
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Gagaloo911

Trumpsters just keep on winning, don't they? I wonder if they're tired of winning yet :oprah:

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