FEMA-CBP JOINT STATEMENT ON DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT FOR PPE
[https://www.fema.gov/news-release/20200726/fema-cbp-joint-statement-defense-production-act-ppe]


Release Date: 
April 8, 2020 

On Friday, April 3, President Trump issued “Memorandum on Allocating
Certain Scarce or Threatened Health and Medical Resources to Domestic
Use” directing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FEMA, in
consultation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), to use the Defense Production Act to keep scarce medical
resources within the United States for domestic use. Personal
Protective Equipment (PPE) subject to this policy includes: N95
respirators, and a variety of other filtering respirators;
air-purifying respirators; surgical masks; and, surgical gloves.

FEMA and CBP are working together to prevent domestic brokers,
distributors, and other intermediaries from diverting these critical
medical resources overseas. To accomplish this, CBP will detain
shipments of the PPE specified in the President’s Memorandum while
FEMA determines whether to return the PPE for use within the United
States; to purchase the PPE on behalf of the United States; or, allow
it to be exported.

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