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WASHINGTON, DC May 19, 2021 National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) President and CEO Kim Glas is testifying today on “COVID-19 Part II: Evaluating the Medical Supply Chain and Pandemic Response Gaps, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at 2:30 p.m. ET.
In written testimony submitted to the committee, Glas provides an overview of: the U.S. market prior to the pandemic and the root causes of America’s dependence on offshore sources for medical PPE; the heroic response of the U.S. textile industry; the federal government’s response to the crisis; and a series of policy recommendations to incentivize the establishment of a permanent domestic PPE supply chain.
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Pic: Shutterstock The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) of the US has requested the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to reconsider and approve a proposal to direct US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to collect Section 301 penalty duties on billions of dollars of Chinese goods currently shipped duty-free under Section 321
de minimis waivers. In a letter to the acting director of the OMB, Robert Fairweather on April 13, the NTCO president and CEO, Kim Glas wrote: “There has been an exponential growth of shipments to the US in recent years that qualify for Section 321 duty-free treatment. US manufacturers of textiles, apparel and other consumer goods that routinely sell for less than the $800 de minimis threshold increasingly find their markets and workforce threatened by this tariff avoidance scheme.”