[SIZE=7]Chinese cargo with 600 artificial respirators is held in the USA and will not be sent to Brazil[/SIZE]
According to the Civil House of the government of Bahia, ‘the purchase of respirators was unilaterally canceled by the seller’, who gave no further explanation
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03/04/2020 - 12:06 / Updated 04/04/2020 - 17:32
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In yet another chapter of the soap about the cancellations of medical supplies provided by China , 600 artificial respirators were held at Miami airport, in the USA, from where they would be sent to Brazil. The information was anticipated by Folha de S.Paulo.
The cargo, in the amount of R $ 42 million, had been acquired by the states of the Northeast, through a contract signed between the supplier (not identified) and the government of Bahia.
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To GLOBO, the press office of the State Civil House said that “the purchase of respirators was canceled unilaterally by the seller”, who did not give any further explanation, only that the cargo would have another destination. The amount was not paid by the government of Bahia.
“Right now, we are looking for new suppliers,” Casa Civil said to GLOBO, which did not want to say whether it is already negotiating with other countries or which suppliers it has in mind to supply the demand.
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Although the supplier did not inform the new destination of the order, it is suspected that the equipment will now be redirected to combat the coronavirus crisis in the USA, which registered the highest number of deaths in the world in a single day from the disease on Thursday .
Chinese suppliers have been accused of canceling contracts with countries like Brazil, France and Canada, and favoring the USA, which would have agreed much higher payments, since there are no rules for this type of situation in international trade .
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On Wednesday, Brazilian Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta had already made a similar statement, stating that Brazilian purchases had “fallen” after confirmation of American purchases.
According to the New York Times, the negotiation between American and Chinese private companies was done with the help of the mediation of American President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The plane that landed on Sunday in New York from Shanghai had 130,000 N-95 masks, nearly 1.8 million surgical masks and clothing and more than 10.3 million gloves, in addition to 70,000 thermometers.
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