Replies to post #21641 on The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[DewDiligence]

3M’s response (issued before market open today):

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3m-response-defense-production-act-123900468.html

[spongepaul]

https://berlinspectator.com/2020/04/03/berlin-muller-slams-trump-for-confiscating-masks-bought-for-police/

“Some German media quoted U.S. government officials on Saturday who said the allegations were all wrong. For the Berlin Senate, a spokesman corrected one aspect: The masks had actually been ordered through a German vendor. The information about the “confiscation” of 200,000 masks had come from that company. It was not known which manufacturer had made the masks. Before, ‘3M’ had been mentioned in German-language media.

Now the Berlin Senate is trying to get to the bottom of the issue. So far, no allegations have been retracted. On Saturday in the late afternoon, the German Foreign Ministry announced it was in the process of finding out what exactly happened. The embassies in Bangkok and Washington D.C. are on the case.”