Healthcare DIVE May 27, 2020
Months into the pandemic, the U.S. faces an ongoing shortage of PPE and some of it is still subject to tariffs.
Gojo Industries, which makes Purell, builds automated hand sanitizer dispensers in the U.S. The devices rely on an electronic input made in China. But in early March, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) turned down Gojo’s tariff exemption request for the specific part needed for its dispensers, just before President Donald Trump declared a national emergency due to COVID-19.
The government later reversed its decision and waived the tariff after a senator from Ohio, where Gojo Industries is based, pressured the USTR because of the product’s importance to public health.
But several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, many consumers...
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