Claim: “On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: Then White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus signed an order on January 24, temporarily delaying the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 30 final regulations that were pending in the Federal Register until March 21, 2017." Employees in the EPA's Office of Acquisition Management, received an email "within hours of President Trump's swearing in", from the new EPA administration, asking "that all contract and grant awards be temporarily suspended, effective immediately" which included "task orders and work assignments" until "further clarification." On February 1, the Trump administration published a Statement of Administration Policy to allow coal companies to dump mining waste

title: 2017 Arkema plant explosion
text: 2017, the same day as the first fire, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board announced an investigation. As of September 2017, this board was targeted for defunding by the Trump administration. The Environmental Protection Agency began formally asking questions of Arkema on September 7, 2017. When Arkema North American CEO Richard Rowe announced at a press conference that nothing could prevent an explosion at the Crosby facility, reporters requested documents about the plant. The company repeatedly refused to disclose detailed chemical inventories, facility maps and other documents about the Crosby site to the public, citing concerns about terrorism. Many of the

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: published similar findings on July 6. "The New York Times" reported on June 16, 2018 that fear of an impending trade war was disrupting global commerce, noting that "shipments are slowing at ports and airfreight terminals around the world. Prices for crucial raw materials are rising. At factories from Germany to Mexico, orders are being cut and investments delayed. American farmers are losing sales as trading partners hit back with duties of their own." On June 18, 2018 Trump instructed his trade representative to identify an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods that would be hit with 10% tariffs if

title: China–United States relations
text: the Trump Administration’s national-security levies on steel and aluminum imports the previous month.The Chinese Government's response is measured, affecting $3 billion in annual trade or about 2% of U.S. goods exports to China. By late September 2018, the Trump Administration had placed tariffs (25% tax increase) on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods, in an attempt to offset the trade imbalance between the two countries. Huawei's Chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, daughter of Huawei's founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested in Canada on December 1, 2018 at the request of U.S. authorities. U.S. Senator Ben Sasse said that China is undermining

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: Navarro as the first Director of the National Trade Council. In April 2017, Trump imposed a tariff on Canada's softwood lumber industry, following complaints from dairy farmers in Wisconsin about Canada's dairy pricing policy. The Trump administration announced a deal with China in May 2017 where China would increase imports of US beef, speed up its approvals of genetically modified products and allow foreign-owned financial groups to offer credit rating services in China while the United States would allow imports of cooked poultry meat from China, encourage exports of liquid natural gas to China, and tacitly endorse Beijing's geopolitical and

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: round of negotiations in Beijing within days. The Trump administration announced on June 15, 2018 that the tariffs would begin July 6, and China immediately announced it would retaliate and withdraw any proposals it had made in previous negotiations, which had included importing an additional $200 billion in American exports by 2020—including $70 billion in agricultural and energy products. "The Washington Post" reported on June 15 that China's threatened retaliatory tariffs were "targeted with laserlike precision at farmers, ranchers and certain manufacturing workers, as well as at the local economies of rural and small-town America," while "The Wall Street Journal"

title: Made in China 2025
text: manufacturing up the value chain and become a major manufacturing power in direct competition with the United States. The US think tank Council on Foreign Relations stated in 2018 that it is a "real existential threat to U.S. technological leadership". The Li Keqiang Government maintains that the plan is in line with the country's WTO obligations. On 15 June 2018, the Trump administration imposed a higher tariff on Chinese goods, and escalated the trade tensions between China and the U.S. The tariff list mainly focuses on the products included in Made In China 2025 plan, including IT and robotics related

title: Trump tariffs
text: tariff. China implemented their tariffs on April 2, 2018. On April 3, 2018, the U.S. Trade Representative's office published an initial list of 1,300+ Chinese goods to impose levies upon, including products like flat-screen televisions, weapons, satellites, medical devices, aircraft parts and batteries. Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai responded by warning the US that they may fight back, saying "We have done the utmost to avoid this kind of situation, but if the other side makes the wrong choice, then we have no alternative but to fight back." On April 4, 2018, China's Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council decided

title: Trump tariffs
text: the tariffs led to increased concerns of a global trade war. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 724 points, or 2.9%, after the tariffs were announced due to concerns over a trade war. Corporations that traded with China, such as Caterpillar Inc.and Boeing suffered large losses in their stock price. In response, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China announced plans to implement its own tariffs on 128 U.S. products. 120 of those products, such as fruit and wine, will be taxed at a 15% duty while the remaining 8 products, including pork, will receive a 25%

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: matched. On July 10, 2018 the Trump administration announced a list of $200 billion in Chinese products upon which tariffs would be imposed, subject to a two-month period for public comment and hearings. Those tariffs were implemented on September 17, with China responding the next day with $60 billion in tariffs on 5.207 American goods, including farm goods, machinery and chemicals. The European Union announced on June 21, 2018 that it would retaliate with tariffs targeted at Trump's political base, effective midnight that night. India and Turkey also announced retaliatory tariffs that day. Trump responded to the EU's retaliation on

title: China Zhongwang
text: that companies associated with China Zhongwang has shipped over 1 million tons of semi-manufactured products to Mexico. Other reports later suggested that these semi-manufactured products were being exported to Vietnam, where they were allegedly to be sold to the US market. The report caused Zhongwang Holdings to suspend its shares in Hong Kong on July 31. Zhongwang denied any wrongdoing, stating that “the allegations against the company in the report are completely baseless and they are non-factual statements”. In March 2016, in response to a petition from the U.S. Aluminum Extruders Council, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation as

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: Corporation CEO Marc Bitzer. On March 22, 2018 Trump announced trade actions regarding China, including tariffs in the $50 billion range, initiation of a WTO dispute and investment restrictions. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 700 points that day, nearly 3%, on concerns of a trade war. "Reuters" reported days later that the tariffs might not be actually imposed until June 2018. In response to these pending tariffs, China announced its intent to impose 25% tariffs against certain American products, notably on the $14 billion in soybeans it buys from America each year. Media reports indicated that China

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: raised about Trump's proposed imposition of a 45 percent tariff on imports from China. On January 23, The U.S. Commerce Department announced new countervailing duties (CVDs) ranging from 38.61 to 65.46 percent on Chinese vehicles in the antidumping case. In 2015, over 8.9 million Chinese truck and bus tires worth $1.07 billion were imported to the United States. At his Senate confirmation hearing as Secretary of State, in mid-January, Rex Tillerson's statements about the South China Sea, "set the stage for a possible crisis between the world's two biggest economies should his comments become official American policy" and "put further

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: summit to suspend the threatened January 1, 2009 tariff increase on $200 billion in Chinese goods. "The New York Times" reported on June 7, 2018 that Trump's Council of Economic Advisors had concluded the president's tariffs strategy would hurt American economic growth. On June 29, 2018, CEA chairman Kevin Hassett declined to confirm or deny the existence of such analysis, asserting executive privilege. By June 22, both "The Wall Street Journal" and "The New York Times" were reporting that negative effects of the Trump tariffs policy had begun to ripple through the American economy. Anecdotally, on June 22 a steel

title: ILC Dover
text: infectious disease; and the Sentinel XT PAPR, used to protect pharmaceutical workers from airborne active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). They also produce an air purifying escape respirator (APER), the SCape CBRN, and the M40/42 gas mask used by the U.S. military. In the late 1970s, ILC developed a special garment, the Demilitarization Protective Ensemble (DPE), to fulfill the U.S. Army's need for an off-the-shelf, positive pressure, totally encapsulating suit for use by maintenance personnel at a chemical weapons site. The DPE was delivered to the Army in 1979 and is still currently in daily use, with over 700 recorded entries into

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: they are united in opposition to Trump's tariffs, with China's Vice Premier Liu He saying "both sides believe that we must resolutely oppose unilateralism and trade protectionism and prevent such behavior from causing volatility and recession in the global economy." China announced on June 28, 2018 that effective July 1 it was reducing or eliminating tariffs on 8,549 products imported from five Asian nations, including chemicals, agricultural products, medical products, soybeans, clothing and steel & aluminum products. China's move would help to reduce the costs of such imports should a trade dispute with the United States escalate. Edward Alden, a

title: Trump tariffs
text: Billion. We cannot let this continue!" The next day Trump directed the USTR to consider $100 billion in additional tariffs. On May 9, 2018, China cancelled soybean orders exported from United States to China. Zhang Xiaoping, Chinese director for the U.S. Soybean Export Council, said that Chinese buyers simply stopped buying from the U.S. On June 15, Donald Trump released a list of $34 billion of Chinese goods to face a 25% tariff, starting on July 6. Another list with $16 billion of Chinese goods was released, with an implementation date of August 23. On July 10, the United States

title: Trump tariffs
text: manufacturing out of the United States. China said that it will retaliate for the tariffs imposed on $50 billion of Chinese goods that came into effect on July 6. China threatened to curb imports of U.S. soybeans. In response to the imposition of U.S. tariffs, Mexico implemented retaliatory tariffs on around $3 billion worth of U.S. goods. These Mexican tariffs, which went into effect on June 5, are imposed on U.S. steel, pork, cheese, whiskey, and apples, among other goods. On January 23, 2018, news outlets announced that Trump had imposed tariffs on solar panels produced outside the United States.

title: WL Ross & Co
text: more than has been done in the whole history of U.S.-China relations on trade. Normally trade deals are denominated in multiple years, not tens of days." The bilateral agreement "welcome[s] Chinese companies negotiating agreements to purchase U.S.-produced liquefied natural gas." According to the Commerce department by mid-May, the DOJ" had "already authorized the shipment of 19.2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas exports to China and other interested countries." China and the U.S. "agreed to hold high-level talks" in the summer of 2017 "led by Ross, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang." In an

title: Economic policy of Donald Trump
text: United States will implement specific investment restrictions and enhanced export controls for Chinese persons and entities related to the acquisition of industrially significant technology. The proposed investment restrictions and enhanced export controls will be announced by June 30, 2018, and they will be implemented shortly thereafter. The Trump administration announced on June 27, 2018 that it had decided not to proceed with either the investment restrictions or the export controls outlined in the May 29 announcement—either on China or on all countries—instead favoring a bill moving through Congress to expand the Committee on Foreign Investment to vet foreign investments more