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‘Buy American’ — White House Confirms Executive Order That Will End Medical Supply Chain Reliance On China
dailycaller ^ | 3-11-2020 | Christian Datoc

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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(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; china; coronavirus; drugs; manufacturing; medical; medicine; navarro; supplychain; supplylines; tariffs; taxes; trade; trumpasia; trumpeo; wrongdirection
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To: COBOL2Java
Di Fi is saddened

May her sadness increase faster than the spread of any given Chinese bioweapon.

41 posted on 03/12/2020 5:57:36 AM PDT by niteowl77
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To: Eddie01
Yes!
42 posted on 03/12/2020 6:04:45 AM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Bshaw
I suspect that there are many facilities like this. The question is how costly it would be to get them up to code for a modern production line?

Another problem is that the supply chains are very complex for many products. Production in the US would still need to get materials from a global supply chain. One would need to amend the tax code to encourage businesses to keep reasonable reserves of their input materials. Sound-bytes ignore these very real issues.

43 posted on 03/12/2020 6:04:49 AM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: Eddie01
He added that the EO would cover more than 400 “essential medicines” that “satisfy the priority health care needs of the population.”

Huge, didn't see this reported on CBS This Morning, they were too busy spreading false info.

44 posted on 03/12/2020 6:06:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ronnie raygun
This is much easier said than done. The American Chemical Society produced a recent podcast on just this issue. You can find it here.
45 posted on 03/12/2020 6:11:00 AM PDT by RetiredScientist
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To: Bshaw

LAWYERS HAVE HELPED GET THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND PHARMAS OUT OF AMERICA.


46 posted on 03/12/2020 6:16:56 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Regulator
Well if HRC would have won her Chinese masters wouldn't had to release this virus because they are out of foreign currency due to president Trump putting them in a box.

Sure its a half assed unsupported theory - watch though its probably true.

The Chinese most likely did the unthinkable to save communism with chinese characteristics from its creditors.

They did it with the babies.

A nation full of only male children now they are in charge of stuff and things, House of cards collapsing, add on some face saving and there disgustingness of their culture.

All Chinese imports need to be banned and all Chinese nationals in the United States need to be shown the door.

China is the worlds pariah - now its collapsing its time to isolate them and their sickly exhausted population.

47 posted on 03/12/2020 6:26:50 AM PDT by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: 1Old Pro

“Huge, didn’t see this reported on CBS This Morning, they were too busy spreading false info.”

I think that something like this would have worth mentioning in Trump’s address to the nation last night.


48 posted on 03/12/2020 7:03:33 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: datricker

Bravo! *Trump Rally Applause Sound*


49 posted on 03/12/2020 7:45:13 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: LibertyWoman
And lightbulbs!! GW signed that ignorant bill banning incandescent bulbs which closed the ‘only’ lightbulb factory in America.

I have several cases that I stockpiled, for sale. Truth is the LEDs are better in every way and the retail pricing now makes them a bargain.

Something started out bad and ended good is a great thing and people still complaining about the new toilet stools simply have never tried them, but still seem compelled to complain about a product about which they know nothing. It was a crying shame that someone didn't show the new stools to the President before he railed on about them. Dishwasher complaints were valid, old ones clean much better than new ones.

50 posted on 03/12/2020 7:51:48 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Eddie01

Great. And every American working in Chinese pharma should steal their R&D, formulas, etc., info before coming home to work. It would partially make up for all the Chinese have stolen from us over the years.


51 posted on 03/12/2020 7:57:14 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: Eddie01

There goes your Johnson & Johnson stock.

Great news! I love this commonsense President. It’s pathetic he has to tell wealthy corporate officers and investors which country they belong to.


52 posted on 03/12/2020 8:04:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Party that freed sIaves, passed Civil Rights is called racist by the party that started the KKK.)
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To: All

Praise be to YHVH (God)!

What kind of people have allowed the production of their medical and other security products to be moved to an enemy nation? Become reliant upon their enemies to produce their vital materials?

A people asleep, being set for destruction by their own government, corporations and institutions.


53 posted on 03/12/2020 8:04:25 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam; USgov may be radically changed, just amend USConstitution)
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To: MayflowerMadam

The magnitude of the West’s dependence on China for medical supplies cannot be overstated. From medicine, to surgical instruments and supplies, medical clothing, IV bags and tubes, thermometers, syringes, etc., etc. I have no idea about more expensive diagnostic machinery such as xrays, blood testing centrifuges, MR1s, radiation therapy machines ... I expect there are some domestic manufacturers of these more expensive items, but I don’t think we have full information about the extent of your vulnerability. This has been a wake up call in so many ways. Thank goodness that America has a. President who acknowledges the threat and is taking bold actions to correct the situation.


54 posted on 03/12/2020 8:05:18 AM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: veracious

This globalization BS has to stop! Moving essentials to foreign countries is the most stupid thing this past government has done. The past administrations has allowed China for one to hold the sword over our heads.

This country is more then capable of providing the essentials required to survive wars, epidemics and trade problems and we should have this as a priority.

No more relying on foreign countries to supply America.


55 posted on 03/12/2020 8:13:08 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Organized Crime is now in charge of the District of Corruption)
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To: Rashputin

My point is this:

The “downsizing” of American manufacturing was an intentional play by the Powers That Be to reduce America’s wealth and influence on the World stage.

And, by the by, to enrich themselves!


56 posted on 03/12/2020 8:50:35 AM PDT by Taxman ((We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!))
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To: littleharbour

“Thank goodness that America has a. President who acknowledges the threat”

And IIRC, Trump has been warning about this problem for MANY years before the presidency was a glimmer in his eye — maybe 15 or 20 years.


57 posted on 03/12/2020 9:12:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength" - Corrie ten Boom)
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To: Taxman

I believe this is how the pimping of the corona virus will come back to bite the traitors to this country. I think Trump will turn it around on them again! Best Ever!


58 posted on 03/12/2020 9:28:46 AM PDT by gr8eman (Stupid should hurt! Treason should hurt more!)
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To: cba123

Don’t forget the booming software industry as well.


59 posted on 03/12/2020 10:57:13 AM PDT by bobcat62
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To: Eddie01

This virus should be a cautionary tale why we need to produce meds in the U.S.


60 posted on 03/12/2020 10:59:18 AM PDT by Citizen Soldier
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