Column: Amid coronavirus pandemic, Trump tariffs raise cost of masks, other medical supplies

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Trump's global trade war costs the U.S. crucial medical supplies in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic.

But some are still subject to pre-Trump tariffs, including the 7% levy on masks. Trump could exempt them from non-China tariffs, but hasn’t done so.

As O’Neill testified in June, for many products “no other country individually or in combination has close to the manufacturing capacity to replace what we get from China....Gloves especially are almost 100% manufactured in China. The same is true for some of the other personal protective equipment like gowns. There are not alternative manufacturing facilities.”

 

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You mean China hoarded the gear.....

Make American, buy American. Tariffs don’t matter if you buy and put AmericaFirst. Period.

Wait a sec...Trump says China & other countries pay us....Isn't that right?

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