Having run and won on the promise of keeping American jobs home, US president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday threatened US companies relocating operations and jobs abroad with “consequences” — essentially higher duty on their products. “Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences,” Trump told workers at a plant in Indiana. They aren't going to be taking people's hearts out.”The plant whose workers Trump was addressing belongs to Carrier, a manufacturer of air conditioners and furnaces,which became a target for his attacks on companies taking American jobs abroad. Though details of the agreement remain sparse, Trump is touting it as the kind of deal-making he had promised. “Companies are not going to leave the United States any more without consequences.

Source: Hindustan Times December 02, 2016 16:00 UTC