{"id":63913,"date":"2020-04-04T01:51:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63913"},"modified":"2020-04-04T01:51:45","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:51:45","slug":"3m-pushes-back-trump-orders-stop-exporting-n95-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63913","title":{"rendered":"3M pushes back after Trump orders it to stop exporting N95 masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing giant 3M pushed backed against President Trump in a statement on Friday that suggested it would not comply with a White House order to stop exporting masks to Canada and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration on Thursday invoked the Defense Production Act, compelling 3M to prioritize orders for desperately needed N95 respiratory masks for the US government\u2019s national stockpile.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota-based company, one of the largest manufacturers of the masks, said it was looking forward to implementing the order and had already been going \u201cabove and beyond\u201d in recent weeks to churn them out as quickly as possible amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>But 3M criticized a previously unreported request from the White House that it also stop sending any N95 masks to Latin America and Canada, citing \u201csignificant humanitarian implications\u201d given the great need for them in the US and complaints from governors around the country, including New York\u2019s Andrew Cuomo, that they wind up in bidding wars for supplies against each other and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Administration also requested that 3M cease exporting respirators that we currently manufacture in the United States to the Canadian and Latin American markets,\u201d the Friday morning statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada and Latin America, where we are a critical supplier of respirators,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n<p>The manufacturing company said it feared other countries would retaliate if it stopped exporting masks made in the US, \u201cas some have already done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease. That is the opposite of what we and the Administration, on behalf of the American people, both seek.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bombshell sparked a diplomatic scramble, with Ontario Premier Doug Ford telling US Trade Representative Robert\u00a0Lighthizer that the new order would potentially jeopardize the health of Canada\u2019s frontline workers, he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the order a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a mistake for both of our countries to limit our access to goods and personnel,\u201d Trudeau said Friday morning, saying Canada would \u201ccontinue to keep trade open with the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>The president and his top trade adviser, Peter Navarro, both lashed into the Minnesota-based company on Thursday night, criticizing 3M for continuing to send respirators overseas when the US is facing a critical domestic shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted that his administration \u201chit 3M hard today after seeing what they were doing with their masks,\u201d and threatened the company \u201cwill have a big price to pay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a White House briefing Thursday evening, Navarro said he\u2019d experienced issues making sure 3M products manufactured around the world were \u201ccoming back here to the right places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, 3M said it would ramp up overseas production and was exporting 10 million N95 respirators manufactured by its factory in China.<\/p>\n<p>Several other companies including General Electric, Phillips and General Motors have also been recently compelled to produce ventilators in separate Defense Production Act cases.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing giant 3M pushed backed against President Trump in a statement on Friday that suggested it would not comply with a White House order to stop exporting masks to Canada and Latin America. 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