CNN: Biden to order review on cracks in critical supply chains
President Joe Biden wants his administration to identify and fix potential cracks in supply chains that could cause shortages of critical items like chips inside cars, minerals in flat-screen televisions, batteries in electric vehicles and ingredients in life-saving medicines.
The President will direct his team in an executive order on Wednesday to conduct a review to determine which products used by Americans in their everyday lives -- or that are necessary to keep the country safe -- could be vulnerable to disruptions.
And, perhaps more critically, he wants to find out how much of that supply is dependent on places like China.
Already, US automakers have slowed production because of a shortage of semiconductor chips, which are mostly manufactured abroad, including in China. And shortages of medical equipment at the start of the coronavirus pandemic also exposed vulnerabilities in the United States' ability to manufacture supplies in a crisis, leaving front-line workers dependent on products from abroad.
More: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/24/politics/biden-executive-order-review-supply-chains/index.html
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