Posted on 03/11/2020 6:18:59 PM PDT by Eddie01
White House Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro confirmed Wednesday the administration is working on an executive order to eliminate the government’s reliance on foreign-made medical supplies.
The “Buy American” order comes on the heels of concerns expressed by senators during their Tuesday meeting with President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill.
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The order would prevent federal agencies from purchasing medical supplies, including face masks, gloves and ventilators, from China.
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China has prevented the export of surgical face masks, severely limiting supplies in the U.S. and countries around the world.
“China has managed to dominate all aspects of the supply chain using the same unfair trade practices that it has used to dominate other sectors — cheap sweatshop labor, lax environmental regulations and massive government subsidies,” Navarro told New York Times. “As President Trump has said, what we need to do is bring those jobs home so that we can protect the public health and the economic and national security of the country.”
He added that the EO would cover more than 400 “essential medicines” that “satisfy the priority health care needs of the population.” Additional products targeted in the order include “medical countermeasures” made to protect against chemical and biological threats, radiation, nuclear fallout and infectious diseases like coronavirus.
“Nothing we do now will impede in any way our ability to get what we need when we need it from foreign sources,” he told CBS.
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Yay!!!!
Excellent. This is something that should be done anyway, and the Coronavirus only shows people why.
Great move
FINALLY!
Now electronics.
Imagine if we didn’t have Trump as President.
The Beast would be prostrating herself to the ChiComs begging for crumbs.
But it had to come to people dying in this country to get this? After so many of us pointed this out time and again for the last 20 years? And were told Oh Don’t Worry?
The Federal government, through onerous taxes and regulations CAUSED this “outsourcing” of manufactured goods and medicines, beginning 30 years ago?
The mantra, “Cheap Chinese stuff” is “good” for America took a nose dive, didn’t it?
This coronavirus black cloud may have a silver lining, mightn’t it?
“Made in America” might just be back in style!
Now all we have to do is get rid of the politicians an businessmen who sold us down the Chinese river!
It seems odd to buy our medicine from the same people who are developing bioweapons that they are planning to use against us.
Great! Great! Great!!
And lightbulbs!! GW signed that ignorant bill banning incandescent bulbs which closed the ‘only’ lightbulb factory in America.
Why hand your enemy the weapon with which they can destroy you?
Economic warfare is alive and well
I think anyone who isn't financially and/or politically tied to the PRC finds it odd.
This is exactly what needs done. Next it to extract ourselves from China for all the other stuff in our supply chain. And why [WHY???] is Boeing building jets in China?
So true. End the Made in China to Made in the USA
EXCELLENT! A huge silver lining
Our elite have become like junkies in their rush to sell out whatever they can to the Chinese to get their next fix.
This all had to end, and it's going to be a lot uglier than anyone knows. It always is. But we will get through it. In the words of Churchill, "you can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Sara Cook, @saraecook (on twitter)
.@CBSNews confirms the White House is working on an Executive Order to decrease American dependence on foreign countries and to bring production back to the US by requiring federal agencies looking to purchase pharmaceuticals and medical supplies/equipment to “Buy American”
Peter Navarro tells @CBSNews the Trump admin is looking to tighten domestic procurement through a 3-pronged strategy: “Buy American,” streamlining regulations, & incentivizing new technologies. The EO targets “essential medicines,” “medical countermeasures,” & their supply chains.
5:11 PM - Mar 11, 2020
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