Documents reviewed by Newsweek suggest that the Department of Commerce sought to connect buyers in China with U.S. manufacturers, even as concerns over national supplies grew.
first reported, the program, titled the"CS China COVID Procurement Service," had been created as part of an effort pushing U.S. manufacturers to ship protective gear to China.show that the Commerce Department released a flyer on February 26, at a time when the global impacts of the coronavirus outbreak were becoming increasingly clear, outlining the"CS China COVID Procurement Service".
that senior leadership at the International Trade Administration had ordered officials to stop the program. Montefiore Medical Center nurses call for N95 masks and other critical PPE to handle the coronavirus pandemic on April 1, 2020, in New York."Instead of preparing to protect Americans, the Trump Administration actively promoted greatly increased export of the very medical gear that our health care professionals and first responders have so desperately needed and the lifesaving equipment that our hospitals lack," the Texas representative said.
"As you can imagine, this is due to quickly increasing number of U.S. COVID-19 cases and growing domestic demand for equipment," the excerpt states."Furthermore, we are confronted with questions on whether the USA has enough supply to meet these demands—let alone the surplus to export." "While the March export data has yet to be released, there is every reason to expect it will show even more was shipped abroad," Doggett said."And the huge increase in exports of essential protective gear and lifesaving equipment in January and February shows that the Trump promotion worked."
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