Posted on 03/13/2020 11:56:07 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Wednesday that the White House is considering an executive order to reduce America’s dependence on foreign countries for supplying medical resources.
“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,” Director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro said in an interview with the New York Times.
Navarro indicated that the widespread coronavirus infection demonstrated that the United States depended too much on countries like China.
“This is not just about public health and safety. It’s about our very national defense,” Navarro told reporters on Wednesday.
Navarro said that the order would attempt a “synergistic combo” of streamlining regulations and improving manufacturing technology under the “Buy American” principle voiced by the administration.
Navarro suggested that the executive order could include a proposal to use American funding to purchase “essential” American medical supplies.
“The only way to do that is to make sure that every dollar of government procurement for our essential medicines and medical countermeasures is a dollar spent on ‘Buy American,'” he said.
Sen. Marco Rubio is among Republican senators that have warned about the dangers of America’s medical supply chain becoming too dependent on China, as the coronavirus expands in the United States.
Navarro did not have a specific date set, but he said it would move forward soon. “We’re trying to move quickly in Trump time, which in this case should be in a matter of weeks,” he said.
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"Pure Donald Trump...playing the game. To win. A new "common cold" virus? 150,000 confirmed cases worldwide. Under 5,000 fatalities. Confirmed is probably a mere fraction of total cases. Symptoms so mild that they are not on the "radar" and not included in the numbers. So true fatality rate is a fraction of what is being surmised. Anybody still counting the flu? The common cold? How many cases between them?
But The Donald is slick. Even brilliant. He's playing his hand. He will overplay the kill ratio and use it as grounds to divorce China. Bring it all home. All of it. Everything that the politicians gave away the last forty years. Economic nationalism. Steve Bannon style. Bring back...Made in America. There is the end game.
Parlaying a new common cold or flu into the full house. Trump...is trump."
I am looking at this to happen also, bring it ALL home FINALLY I can’t believe how many of our companies have been willing to have their businesses in a commie country with ALL of their trade secrets being stolen every damn day!!!
This is a national defense issue, just like the Wall. Only Trump can get it done.
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White House Previews Executive Order to Reduce Medical Supply Chain Dependence on China
The Donald is playing the NWO like a fiddle.
Finally a Marshall Plan for America itself, right?
Think how much crap they’ve been putting in meds as well. Quality control is non existent.
China has NO hand and yet it threatens.
Who taught them how to negotiate?
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I'd rather not.
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Your zest for the President is appreciated, but, he is only one man.
He could use some MEN (and great women) to help him.
Bringing it back can’t come too soon. Yesterday would be a good start. Then he should start going after the people who sold us out in the first place.
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Sounds good.
"Give 'em hell, Harry."
Jean effin Kerry? lol
It’s not coming home. It will get distributed to other nations...Mexico, India, etc.
“China has managed to dominate all aspects of the supply chain...”
Well, they did have a “little” help in this...
Every day with Trump is a move toward a positive for America and Americans.
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Even distributing would be a drastic improvement.
Think how much crap they’ve been putting in meds as well. Quality control is non existent.
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Amen. I took Glipizide from one manufacturer couple days and it worked fine. Then took it from another maker for few days and it did not work very well. Did that for a few rounds and finally figured the one is just not quality med.
I can’t believe what a dang good president Trump is. I marvel more and more each passing day.
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