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users are willing to pay premium so we re prepared for future pandemics. reporter: it s still early days, but experts say it is essential that the u.s. makes more of its ppe at home. the question is whether people will remember this and be willing to pay that premium in the medium tomorrow or just a very short-term memory and soon people will go back to thinking who s my lowest price supplier. reporter: that might ultimately determine the success or failure of these new enterprises. whether they re expensive experiments or beginning of a new era reducing america s dependence on factories from the other side of the world. no one is complaining about u.s. government investment in domestic ppe production, but no one we interviewed for this story thinks that is a viable long-term solution either. the medical supply chain expert you heard from in the story thinks that the government instead ought to be negotiating better trade deals to make sure that standards and wages in asia
this and be willing to pay that premium in the medium term, or is this just a very short-term memory, and soon people will go back to thinking about who is my lowest-cost supplier? reporter: that may ultimately be what determines the success or failure of these new enterprises, whether they re expensive experiments or the beginning of a new era that reduces america s dependence on factories on the other side of the world. at a time like this, no one is complaining about u.s. government investment in domestic ppe production, but no one we interviewed for this story thinks that is a viable long-term solution either. the medical supply chain expert you just heard from says that the government instead ought to be negotiating better trade deals so that wages and standards in places like china or thailand or malaysia are comparable with wages and standards in the united states so that american producers can actually compete on a level playing field, paula. a lot of issues at work, and it