3M pushes back after Trump orders
company to stop exporting N95 masks
by
Ebony Bowden
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
4/3/2020 3:20:22 PM
Washington—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. 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’s national stockpile.(Snip) “The Administration also requested that 3M cease exporting respirators that we currently manufacture in the United States to the Canadian and Latin American markets,” the Friday morning statement read. “There are, however, significant humanitarian implications of ceasing respirator supplies to healthcare workers in Canada
3M makes a lot of products. I wish it were possible to switch to other companies. We need to punish bad behavior.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
john56 4/3/2020 3:32:37 PM (No. 367427)
Perhaps ending a General and a few troops over to 3M HQ and occupy the joint might be in order.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
kdsils60 4/3/2020 3:38:55 PM (No. 367432)
Time to go in an haul off VP's with handcuffs... it is time for President Trump to take back the FBI and start using it for his plans... it's past time!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
TexaTucky 4/3/2020 3:49:55 PM (No. 367442)
Hmmmm....I wonder how many Post-it notes and rolls of packing tape the USG orders from 3M. It’d be a shame if something happened to those lucrative contracts.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
edgar 4/3/2020 3:55:21 PM (No. 367448)
What are the possible penalties for "Resistance" to the Defense Production Act? Just curious.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/3/2020 3:58:07 PM (No. 367450)
Well, after the Defense Production Act is invoked by the President in a national emergency, who gets to decide what critical medical equipment can be exported out the the USA? Is it the President who has the responsibility for the health and welfare of the nation, or a manufacturer of medically related equipment who is in business to make as much money as possible for shareholders?
As far as Canada is concerned, the Prime Minister there should be talking privately to the President concerning their need for certain medical equipment being manufactured in the USA.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Skeptical1 4/3/2020 4:15:16 PM (No. 367463)
Is it possible that 3M has a valid point? We know that we're heavily reliant on overseas supply chains. In fact, from the article, "3M said it would ramp up overseas production and was exporting 10 million N95 respirators manufactured by its factory in China."
As a rich country, we should be able to win bidding wars. But if our export controls stir up national pride and retaliatory controls, I can see how we would wind up worse off.
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Bastards, treasonous. #MAGA
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
PostAway 4/3/2020 4:23:29 PM (No. 367471)
A company like 3M that is headquartered in the U.S. remains so situated because of the stability the country supplies. Taxpayers here pay for that stability partly from the efforts of our military. I love Canada and Canadians but, like many other friendly nations, their prosperity piggybacks on our military presence around the world. When times get rough, Americans should be first in line when home-based companies’ products are needed. We have earned that privilege. I feel much less friendly towards most Latin American countries.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MFM 4/3/2020 4:25:34 PM (No. 367477)
Stick it 3M..
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/3/2020 4:28:54 PM (No. 367480)
It's called "deflection". 3M's just going to make this worse for themselves in the pr section.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bamboozle 4/3/2020 4:30:47 PM (No. 367482)
History shows that going head to head with The Donald usually doesn't end well.
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3M: There are significant legal implications in thumbing your nose at a Presidential order under the Defense Production Act. I hope Attorney General Barr acquaints you with those implications ASAP.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/3/2020 4:34:38 PM (No. 367488)
So, at 3M it's profits over patriotism. Not a pretty picture.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Pearson365 4/3/2020 5:00:14 PM (No. 367518)
One expects this 3M bashing and blame game to come from Schumer, Pelosi and Biden, not a pro business Trump. The President has to stop blaming 3M and ask his incredibly expensive health agencies:
A. Why there a shortage of medical products, whether masks or shields,
B. Why there ia only one company producing these masks? How long were the CDC, NIH, FDA and FEMA aware of this dependency?
C. Why is federal approval so painstakingly slow?
Just weeks ago the Chinese communists threatened to withhold the massive amount of drugs, including 93% of our antibiotics, they ship to the US, and we were outraged. How is Trump’s threat any different?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Justcurious 4/3/2020 5:14:24 PM (No. 367523)
Disingenuous. 3M sells through distributors and the distributors have been selling overseas to the highest bidder. The amount of actual production is irrelevant. And...rather than exporting from here and importing from China, why can't they just ship directly from China to Canada, Mexico?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/3/2020 5:26:12 PM (No. 367532)
US businesses are told to shut down and they comply, but 3M is providing a humanitarian service, so the orders the rest of businesses must do to keep America safe don't apply to them.
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Wow! Let's send in the military to expropriate a private business...how perfectly Venezuelan/Cuban is that? The Defense Production Act has NOTHING to do with a war with a virus...NOTHING. But, like any dictatorship, the ends justify the emergency actions that usurp things like individual and property rights. Hysteria overtaking principles.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
blueline 4/3/2020 5:51:49 PM (No. 367562)
As usual, the issue is muddied by the repetition of half-truths. Jared Moskowitz, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, told Tucker carlson yesterday that 3M's authorized distributors are the only ones they can buy the masks from; 3M won't sell to anyone directly. Those distributors are the ones taking bids and selling to the highest bidder, in spite of the fact that American doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals are exposed to great risk without them. 3M apparently isn't interested in "having a talk" with those distributors about correcting the problem.
And as for the "difference" between China's THREAT re: meds and this: China's statement was a direct threat to put the U.S. into a "sea of coronavirus"; Trump said we need the masks to keep American doctors/nurses from getting sick and dying. BIG DIFFERENCE.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
buckeye1 4/3/2020 6:31:39 PM (No. 367592)
Maybe its Timor POTUS to push back to the fullest extent of the law. ''CUFF 'EM AND STUFF EM''
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/3/2020 6:57:27 PM (No. 367617)
President's staff should look in the ''basement.'' Someone at FEMA has countermanded PJT's DPA order. 3M isn't that big a Trump fan, just your basic DFL tactics at work. The political manure-spreader is working overtime. Whether it is the Democrat-Farm Labor party or the Democratic National Committee--the steps of the dance are the same.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/3/2020 7:11:01 PM (No. 367628)
This COVID-19 is bringing out the best and the ugly living in this great nation. Does the true American and our Patriots have a fighting chance against these EVIL that's thriving and contaminating our constitutional ideology? Especially more and more Legal Immigrants and Illegal Aliens entering this country refusing to assimilate into our society. The country is rotting from the inside.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rochow 4/3/2020 8:23:07 PM (No. 367677)
#15, those 'Chinese Co.'s' were actually American companies located in China. The Chinese wanted to prevent them from shipping anything back to the US. That is why Navarro is trying to bring American companies back to the US, because you cannot protect your own country when vitally important products are produced in a foreign country.
Under Bush we had American uniforms made over there. Does not make sense to me. Worse, some of our weapons were produced over there as well. The Army always complained that they did not shoot well. What a surprise! Bush did nothing about it nor the community punk!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 4/3/2020 11:04:58 PM (No. 367747)
Thank you, #18. L-Dotters of good faith may not always agree on specifics, but I read your replies carefully and think about what you say. I am also uncomfortable vilifying 3M for disposing of their property as they fit see fit, and I am concerned about the Constitutional principles that are being trampled. If nothing else, use of legislation designed for wartime in a metaphorical war against a virus gives me pause.
Right now, we need more herd immunity and less herd mentality.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
DustDevil31 4/5/2020 8:41:21 PM (No. 369926)
Too bad our government drove most of our critical manufacturing overseas.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/5/2020 10:57:42 PM (No. 369982)
3M is showing themselves to be a miserable citizen of the US! Move HQ to N Korea and send all the Sr. mgmt. there!
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Humanitarian in modern times, where a nation is nothing more than a borderless market (thanks for that, Bush family), means they're making more money selling US-made products elsewhere.