Bernie Sanders criticized the Carrier deal saying corporations can now threaten to send jobs abroad in exchange for tax benefits and incentives.
Carrier currently operates one plant in Nuevo Leon and has built but not yet occupied another one there as part of a planned $200 million expansion.
Trump set out plans on Monday that include withdrawing from TPP, which he calls a "potential disaster."
The International Monetary Fund cut its 2017 growth forecast to 2.2 percent from 2.6 percent
U.S. vehicle manufacturers and many of their suppliers have based billions of dollars of investment on relatively open trade with Mexico, China and other countries.
"When it comes to trade, I believe the answer is not to pull back," said Obama at his last overseas news conference.
"In the face of Trump's positioning, we're now in a stage of favoring dialogue as a way to build a new agenda in our bilateral relationship"
Mexico could include labor and environmental rules in talks over modernizing a trade deal between the United States and Mexico, President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Saturday as he seeks to avoid a stand-off with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump
The Mexican president said that “elements can be incorporated into the treaty so as to upgrade it” during his participation in the Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC)
Trump claimed Thursday that he convinced Ford Motor Co. not to move a plant from Kentucky to Mexico, but Ford never intended to move the plant.