NCC Joins Industry Coalition Endorsing Domestic PPE Production

By Cotton Grower Staff|July 20, 2020

The National Cotton Council (NCC) has joined an industry coalition representing the full spectrum of domestic personal protective equipment (PPE) production in a statement outlining policy principles and objectives needed for reshoring and safeguarding domestic PPE manufacturing.

According to the statement, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed severe shortages in our nation’s PPE supply and an overreliance on foreign sourced products, underscoring the importance for the U.S. government to incentivize, support and maintain domestic manufacturing capacity for PPE.

Coalition members encompassing every segment of the U.S. textile, apparel and PPE supply chain – plus unions representing workers – acted swiftly earlier this year to convert manufacturing facilities and build supply chains virtually overnight to produce desperately needed PPE.

“We are united in our support of important principles that must be adopted in order to address our current public health needs and guarantee our nation is better prepared to respond to future emergencies,” the 21 associations said in the joint statement. These organizations are calling on Congress and the Trump administration to adopt principles outlined in the statement through legislation, executive order and other appropriate means.

In addition to the NCC, the statement was signed by the following organizations:

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