The company said it will be allowed to continue exporting some masks to Canada and Latin America from the U.S. He ordered the ban on exports after clashing with 3M over what the administration said was the company’s sending overseas masks needed in the U.S. Canadian officials scrambled over the weekend to try to convince the Trump administration to exempt their nation from any export ban and those talks continued Monday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaking with his counterpart. Exacerbate ShortagesIn 2019, U.S. exports of N95 masks and other products covered by the ban amounted to about $1 billion, Bown said. One viral tweet in Brazil on Saturday read: “The U.S. saving the world from a lethal virus is just for the movies.

Source: Hindustan Times April 07, 2020 02:09 UTC