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China dominates medical supplies, in this outbreak and the next
Ma Zhaoxu, vice minister of foreign affairs, said that from March through May, China exported 70.6 billion masks. The entire world produced about 20 billion all of last year, with China accounting for half. Other countries now want self-reliance. Earlier in the pandemic, China sometimes decided which countries received crucial supplies and demanded profuse and public thanks in exchange. President Emmanuel Macron of France pledged in March to produce homegrown masks and respirators by the end of this year. Peter Navarro, President Trump’s industrial policy adviser, has begun a push for the federal government to buy American-made pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. China, however, has a head start. In 2005, after the outbreak of SARS, which killed 350 people in China, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced that it had developed respirators that better fit Chinese faces.
The American Conservative
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Not Just China: U.S. Reliance on Foreign Medical Supplies is Staggering - The American Conservative
March 27, 2020 - In 2002—a good baseline, since that’s the first year China was a member of the World Trade Organization—imports overall accounted for 16.7 percent of all surgical appliances and supplies used in the United States (measured by value, not ...
NYTimes
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China Dominates Medical Supplies, in This Outbreak and the Next (Published 2020)
July 5, 2020 - When it shifted a Southern California factory to making medical masks this year, QYK Brands had to import the fabric-cutting machines from China.Credit...Bryan Denton for The New York Times ... BEIJING — Alarmed at China’s stranglehold over supplies of masks, gowns, test kits and other front-line weapons for battling the coronavirus, countries around the world have set up their own factories to cope with this pandemic and outbreaks of the future. When the outbreak subsides, those factories may struggle to survive. China has laid the groundwork to dominate the market for protective and medical supplies for years to come. Factory owners get cheap land, courtesy of the Chinese government. Loans and subsidies are plentiful. Chinese hospitals are often told to buy locally, giving China’s suppliers a vast and captive market. Once vaccines emerge, demand will plummet.
Civitas
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China’s presence in NHS supply chains | Civitas
China’s presence in NHS supply chains
Robert Clark and Richard Norrie, May 2022
This new Civitas report takes a closer look at Chinese-manufactured goods in NHS supply chains and discovers the NHS is “dangerously reliant” on China for medical supplies.
This analysis by Robert Clark and Dr Richard Norrie finds 1 in 6 (17 per cent) products contained on the Government’s “Disaster Relief List” are sourced from China. In the last year the UK government has spent over £6.2 billion to keep the NHS going with Chinese manufactured medical supplies – a figure that has trebled in less than a year.
The report calls for an emergency
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Voice of America
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Pandemic Exposes Perils of Global Reliance on China for Drug Supplies | Voice of America - English
In addition, 70% to 80% of the masks come from China. French President Emmanuel Macron speaks after a video-conference summit on vaccination at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 4, 2020.
Fox News
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Sen. Marco Rubio on breaking US dependence on China for medical supplies | Fox News
And that's what we know, just on the ingredient piece. There are other developed medicines that may come from another country, not China, but their active ingredients are also from there. So we've got to create demand. Number one. You know, the Department of Defense should have to be required to build a stockpile of essential medicines. We should bring back the buy American preferences in the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration, all of that creates demands for domestic production. And part of it is actually requiring pharmaceuticals to tell us how much of the active -- how many -- what percentage of the ingredients in your medicine comes from overseas, particularly from China? We are -- we believe the estimate is right. We think it can be higher. We don't actually know how high that percentage is because that right requirement is not embedded in every pharmaceutical company's profile.
Published March 10, 2020
NBC News
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Trump's trade war exacerbated shortage of medical equipment
According to the Peterson Institute ... and the percentages are much higher for some items: 70 percent of mouth-nose protective equipment and 57 percent of goggles and visors....
Published March 27, 2020
Congress.gov
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COVID-19: China Medical Supply Chains and Broader Trade Issues | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
Source: CRS with data from the U.S. International Trade Commission's DataWeb. While the United States depends on China for low-end PPE and API, the United States depends more on Europe and select Asian countries for high-end medical products. The United States is a global leader in advanced medical equipment and pharmaceutical innovation—areas where China is seeking to gain ground through its industrial policies (Figure 3). ... In early February 2020, the Chinese government nationalized control of the production and dissemination of medical supplies in China. Concerned about shortages and its ability to contain COVID-19, the Chinese government transferred authority over the production and distribution of medical supplies from the Ministry of Information Industry and Technology (MIIT) to the NDRC, China's powerful central economic planning ministry.
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Increase 7.51%! my country's high -end medical dressing exports are in good momentum - Major Medical
According to the statistics of ... have been ranked first in the world, accounting for 65.7%of the global market in 2022, and 58.78%in the first half of 2023....
Voice of America
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Pandemic Exposes Perils of Global Reliance on China for Drug Supplies
May 19, 2020 - In addition, 70% to 80% of the masks come from China. French President Emmanuel Macron speaks after a video-conference summit on vaccination at the Elysee Palace in Paris, May 4, 2020.
Idaho Statesman
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China Dominates Medical Supplies, in This Outbreak and the Next | Idaho Statesman
July 5, 2020 - Ma Zhaoxu, vice minister of foreign affairs, said that from March through May, China exported 70.6 billion masks. The entire world produced about 20 billion all of last year, with China accounting for half. Other countries now want self-reliance. Earlier in the pandemic, China sometimes decided which countries received crucial supplies and demanded profuse and public thanks in exchange. President Emmanuel Macron of France pledged in March to produce homegrown masks and respirators by the end of this year. Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s industrial policy adviser, has begun a push for the federal government to buy U.S.-made pharmaceuticals and medical supplies. China, however, has a head start. In 2005, after the outbreak of SARS, which killed 350 people in China, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced that it had developed respirators that better fit Chinese faces.
Civitas
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China’s presence in NHS supply chains:
percent of the items on the Disaster Relief List come from China, as measured by their ... Chinese import rate greater than 50 percent. Please note that, regarding the category names in the tables below, the apparently · ambiguous ‘combined categories’ (of ‘PPE and other protective ...
U.S. Senate
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U.S. Supply Chain Security
While the U.S. is a net exporter of medical devices, according to the FDA, 13% of the facilities that make active pharmaceutical ingredients are in China. Generic and over-the-counter drugs are especially reliant on foreign supply chains.
The Intercept
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Key Medical Supplies Were Shipped From U.S. Manufacturers to Foreign Buyers, Records Show
April 2, 2020 - The U.S. government has placed no restrictions on exports of medical supplies while continuing to impose financial penalties on the import of personal protective gear, protective goggles, pulse oximeters, hand sanitizer, and other medical products from China. On March 10 and 12, President Donald Trump temporarily lifted tariffs, in place since 2017, on some of these medical products. “The lack of domestic personal protective equipment also relates to our government’s unwillingness to read the cards and begin seriously stockpiling in January and February,” said Olivia Webb, policy analyst with the American Economic Liberties Project. Blanket bans on exports could disrupt production of health care products by breaking supply chains in the midst of a crisis, and could limit the ability of the U.S. to assist poorer countries facing the pandemic.
Breitbart
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Coronavirus Exposes China's Monopoly on U.S. Drug, Medical Supplies
May 18, 2020 - The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed ...
NBC News
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China’s Covid wave threatens another snarl of U.S. medical supply chain
WASHINGTON — As Covid infections surge across China, the U.S. again risks falling short of medical supplies as that country struggles to keep factories running and goods flowing out of its ports. U.S. hospitals, health care companies and federal officials worked to lessen their dependence on China for medical goods after the first wave of Covid infections in 2020 laid bare the major role China plays in manufacturing such crucial items as masks, latex gloves and surgical gowns, along with the key drugs and components in many medical devices. Those efforts over the past three years are expected to be tested in the coming weeks and months as the virus rolls through China following the lifting of nearly all Covid restrictions there last month. China has stopped releasing official figures for infections and deaths, but media reports show hospitals overwhelmed with patients, funeral homes out of space for bodies, and factories unable to operate with so many workers ill.
Published January 9, 2023