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Donald Trump spoke at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis on Thursday, formally announcing his agreement with the company to keep the plant open and reportedly saving some 1,000 jobs from moving to Mexico._ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 1, 2016 11:01 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 1, 2016 11:01 PM UTC Donald Trump spoke at the [Carrier plant](http://time.com/4587890/donald-trump-speech-carrier-plant-indiana/?xid=homepage) in Indianapolis on Thursday, announcing a deal with the company to [keep about 1,000 jobs](http://fortune.com/2016/11/30/donald-trump-carrier-deal-jobs/?xid=homepage) in the state instead of moving them to Mexico. The decision by the air-conditioner company comes as a win for the President-elect, who made the issue of retaining [manufacturing jobs](http://time.com/4588027/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-carrier-corporate-tax/?xid=homepage) in the United States a core economic focus of his campaign. Trump has said he will overhaul the corporate tax code to be more friendly to businesses like Carrier, and the company will receive economic incentives worth $7 million, which were negotiated by Vice President-Elect Mike Pence, who is still governor of Indiana, according to the [New York Times](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/business/economy/trump-carrier-pence-jobs.html). Despite the deal with Trump, Carrier still plans to close a plant in Huntington, Indiana, which will result in about 700 jobs moving to Mexico, [NBC reported](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-kick-victory-lap-touting-carrier-deal-n690771) Thursday. Trump was confident in his victory tour on Thursday, presenting a strong message to companies who want to outsource jobs in the future. “There will be consequences,” he said. Read his full remarks here: --- > “” --- ## Transcript [ APPLAUSE ] We can't allow this to happen anymore with our country. So many jobs are leaving and going to other countries. Not just Mexico, many, many countries. And China is making so much of our product that would closing up A a lot of plants. And I mean I wrote down some numbers that are incredible. But the numbers of manufacturing jobs that are lost, especially in the rust belt. And the rust belt is so incredible. But we're losing companies, it's unbelievable. One after another. Companies are not going to leave the United States anymore without consequences, not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen, tell you right now. [ APPLAUSE ] We're losing so much. So One of the things we're doing to keep them is we're gonna be lowering our business tax from 35 % hopefully down to 15 %, which would take us from the highest tax nation virtually in the world, this is terrible for business, to one of the lower tax. Not the lowest yet but one of the lower tax. I just wanna let all of the other companies know Then we're gonna do great things for businesses, no reason for them to leave anymore, because you're taxes are gonna be at the very, very low end. And your unnecessary regulations are gonna be gone. We need regulations for safety and environment and things, but most of the regulations are nonsense. So many people in the other than big beautiful plant behind us, which will be even more beautiful and About seven months from now. They're so happy, they're going to have a great Christmas. 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