> For clothing, the Berry Amendment ensures that the US has strategic capacity, by mandating that certain government purchases are made from suppliers that assemble US fabric with US labor.
Honestly, US government policy should be to buy everything that could be remotely considered strategic or useful in an emergency from US suppliers that use US labor and materials. Small exceptions could be made for proprietary things made by NATO allies, but even that stuff should really have a second source supplier located in the US.
Honestly, US government policy should be to buy everything that could be remotely considered strategic or useful in an emergency from US suppliers that use US labor and materials. Small exceptions could be made for proprietary things made by NATO allies, but even that stuff should really have a second source supplier located in the US.