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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking to use powers under a Korean War-era law to cut off 3M’s ability to export surgical masks abroad and to claim more of the masks the Minnesota company manufactures in other countries for use in the United States.

But some trade and legal experts fear the policy could backfire, causing other governments to clamp down on exports of masks, ventilator parts and pharmaceuticals that the United States desperately needs. They have also questioned whether the Defense Production Act gives the government the authority to commandeer goods made outside the United States.
In a statement Friday morning, 3M said that the administration had used the Defense Production Act to request that the company increase the number of respirators that it imports into the United States from its overseas operations, and that it was complying. This week, 3M said, it secured approval from China to export to the United States 10 million N95 respirators that the company manufactures there.
The company added that the administration had also asked 3M to stop exporting respirators made in the United States to Canada and Latin America — a request it said carried “significant humanitarian implications” for people in those countries.

Although the administration has been pressuring American companies to ramp up their production of ventilators, masks and other needed products, the United States is still highly dependent on imports of protective gear from China, pharmaceuticals from India and ventilator components from around the world.
“Export bans end up having an unintended negative effect on everybody’s ability to supply these goods,” said Jennifer A. Hillman, a senior fellow for trade and international political economy at the Council on Foreign Relations. “They’re a bad idea.”


These greedy crackas shipped our whole industry overseas just to make a lil bit more money. Now we dont produce jack shit. So when were in a crisis, we gotta ask other countries if its cool to ship our own shit back home smfh.

Also doesnt help that this dumbass president thinks we can hoard everything, but people will still ship us shit. That way of thinking couldnt be any whiter.
 
And a ton of other countries too. Outside of US, EU, and Canada everybodies lying. And even these mfers i look at with a grain of salt.
An Swiss too(ain't Eu).....They numbers I can believe. They taking sick people from France now...Bringing them over on the trains. I can't lie...I'm a bit worried cuz we on the border.
 
Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen



Man Sanders just gotta call it. Why are there still even primaries being had? My mans got no shot.

They really gonna pack 50k people in 5 places? And the 2 weeks later, oh look we have a new hotspot. Smh
 
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