Kodak a first step: Trump White House plans new ways to break Chinese supply chain dominance

[PeteS in CA]

Kodak a first step: Trump White House plans new ways to break Chinese supply chain dominance

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/kodak-first-step-trump-white-house-plans-new-ways-break-chinese

With a focus first on healthcare manufacturing, the White House brokered a $765 million loan to Kodak after noticing 90% of the main ingredients of the most common pharmaceuticals taken each day in the United States are manufactured abroad.

Adam Boehler, CEO of U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, is a lead administration official on the Kodak deal, and said the White House plans to move beyond drugs toward other medical supply areas vulnerably exposed during the coronavirus pandemic.

"We're going down the list," Boehler said in an interview with Just the News. "Look at masks, gloves. Right now, rubber gloves, they're 80%, 90% made outside of the country, we can't have that risk. It doesn't mean we can't buy from certain sources. But you've got to think about it like a backup generator. You've got to have those sources in the United States, too. So we're going through list of items of PPE. We're looking at generic pharmaceuticals, a number of other areas as well."

"If natural disaster happens, what is your Plan B?" should always be part of a US company's thinking when working with a facility or company outside of the US. That US pharmaceuticals companies got that dependent on Chinese manufacturing and materials sourcing was very short-sighted thinking.

[dancer]

These companies are complicit.  There is big money in keeping people ill and dependent on their drugs.  The Chinese have long poisoned our drugs with heavy metals and fetal parts, etc.  Thank God we got Trump elected.  No more poisoning and bloating the price of drugs so Big Pharma can buy our politicians. Talk about winning!

[Smokin Joe]

These companies are complicit.  There is big money in keeping people ill and dependent on their drugs.  The Chinese have long poisoned our drugs with heavy metals and fetal parts, etc.  Thank God we got Trump elected.  No more poisoning and bloating the price of drugs so Big Pharma can buy our politicians. Talk about winning!

I am all for having an at least adequate supply of anything essential.
We did it with oil, and didn't need windmills to get there.

Btw, a lot of pharmaceuticals are derived from petroleum based feedstocks, so that ability to produce more than enough oil for us will also enhance our ability to make pharmacauticals.