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Last week, the president-elect traveled to a Carrier furnace plant in Indiana to announce that he had made good on his promise to bring 1,400 Carrier jobs back to the United States. In fact, however, 600 jobs at that factory will still move to Mexico, and another factory of that company still intends to close. A factory around the corner from Carrier, Rexnord, still intends to move its jobs to Mexico. All of this shows the need for effective trade policies. Occasional phone calls or negotiating monetary inducements or threats to a company are no substitute for real policies.