Canadian Manufacturer Closes Plant, Moves Production to North Carolina [Video]

A Canadian furniture manufacturer is shutting down a facility in its home country and moving those operations to the U.S. — but the company and the workers affected by the move are at odds over whether tariffs are to blame.

The union representing employees at the Prepac Manufacturing Ltd. plant in Delta, British Columbia, announced the facility’s impending closure last week, and said that its production would shift to a facility in North Carolina instead.

The national president of Unifor — Canada’s largest private-sector union — suggested in that announcement that Prepac used uncertainty over trade in North America to make the move amid the Trump administration’s unpredictable tariff announcements. The company, the union noted, cited “an altered economic environment” in its decision.

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