<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/545535-63-percent-want-government-to-buy-us-goods-even-at-higher-cost-poll" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class="">https://thehill.com/homenews/news/545535-63-percent-want-government-to-buy-us-goods-even-at-higher-cost-poll</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">Poll: 63 percent want government to buy US goods, even at higher cost<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">By Jordan Williams</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">3/30/2021<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">Sixty-three percent of Americans want the government to buy goods made in the U.S., even if they cost more, according to a </span></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">Reuters-Ipsos poll </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">released Thursday.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-madeinusa-poll-idUSKBN2BM1DA" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">The survey found</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">that 62 percent of Americans think the government should only buy U.S.-made vaccines, though 53 percent think it is OK to buy personal protective equipment from foreign sources.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">The poll comes a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, which has shined a spotlight on the foreign dependences within America’s supply chain. As Reuters notes, hospitals early on struggled with shortages of gowns, gloves and masks for their staffs.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">A few days after he took office in late January,</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="rollover-people"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/people/joe-biden" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">President Biden</span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="rollover-people"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">signed an</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="rollover-people"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/535746-biden-says-latest-executive-order-will-rebuild-backbone-of-america" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span class="s2"><span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48); text-decoration: none;" class="">executive order</span></span></a></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="rollover-people"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">aimed at strengthening rules that require federal agencies to purchase American-made products.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">The poll found different points of view when it came how much respondents were willing to spend on American-made goods.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">Sixty-nine percent of those surveyed said that an item being U.S.-made is at least somewhat important, though 37 percent said they would not pay extra for one.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p2" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">Twenty-six percent said they would pay 5 percent more, and 21 percent said they would only pay 10 percent more.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">Reuters noted that Americans’ opinions on how much they would spend on U.S.-made products have barely changed since it polled Americans in the early days of former</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="rollover-people"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""><a href="https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);" class=""><span style="color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">President Trump</span></a>’s administration four years ago.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class=""> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">The poll surveyed 1,005 adults on March 4 and 5. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="p1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 15pt; box-sizing: border-box;"><em class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(43, 44, 48);" class="">—Updated at 11:26 a.m.</span></em></p><div class="">
Arthur Stamoulis<br class="">Citizens Trade Campaign<br class="">(202) 494-8826<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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