https://www.ottawamatters.com/national-news/3m-pushes-back-on-trump-administration-order-to-stop-sending-n95-masks-to-canada
You can google 3M Canada if you don’t believe they are an international company.
Canada supplies the material to make the masks in St. Paul Minn. Obviously if we can’t safely rely on the US as a trading partner we will have to reopen our own manufacturing instead of supporting American manufacturing.
Lesson learned. We will not be put in this position again.
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London-based 3M Canada, pulled into Donald Trump maelstrom, eyes medical-mask options
NORMAN DE BONO & JENNIFER BIEMAN
Updated: April 4, 2020
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Caught in the crossfire of a trade row between Canada and America, London-based 3M Canada is “looking at every possible way” to meet domestic demand for medical masks after President Donald Trump forced the company’s American factories to stop exporting the in-demand product.
As the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic continues to escalate, Trump on Friday signed an order directing his administration to stop the export of N-95 face masks – disposable masks that have the ability to block droplets and airborne particles – and other protective gear to other countries.
3M is a major manufacturer of the N-95 masks, which are an essential tool for front-line health care workers around the globe.
Saturday, the manufacturer’s Canadian arm, headquartered in London, told The Free Press it’s looking at ways to meet domestic demand.
“Our primary concern remains the safety of health-care workers and first responders during this crisis, and we are currently reviewing the specific details of the executive memorandum and looking at every possible way to meet domestic needs for Canada,” 3M Canada’s president Penny Wise said in a statement.
“We will continue to provide updated information as it becomes available.”
Both Canada and Latin America receive N-95 masks from 3M’s U.S. operations, the company said in a statement Friday.
“There are . . . significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to health-care workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,” the company said in a statement.
“Ceasing all export of respirators produced in the United States would likely cause other countries to retaliate and do the same.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has insisted that Canadian and U.S. emissaries were in ongoing talks to keep goods, services and commerce moving in both directions across a border already closed to non-essential traffic.
A study by the World Trade Organization found that, in 2019, China, Germany and the U.S. together produced 40 per cent of all exports of personal protective equipment, which includes masks, hand soap, sanitizer and protective goggles — more than $15 billion worth last year in the case of the United States.
3M, based in St. Paul, Minn., is one of the largest U.S. providers of protective medical gear, second only to North Carolina-based conglomerate Honeywell, which has been expanding and retooling facilities across the continent to ramp up its N95 production.
The province has ordered millions of N95 masks but is also attempting to ramp up domestic production of the critical devices and other personal protective equipment, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said.
Ford expressed disapproval of Trump’s move at his daily briefing Saturday, highlighting the number of health care workers that cross the border in Windsor to work in U.S. hospitals.
“Just work with us. We’re stronger together than we are seperated,” he said.
– with files by the Canadian Press
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