As the pandemic raged in 2020, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro called Andy Warlick, the CEO of Parkdale Mills, a textile manufacturer with a large factory in South Carolina, with an urgent request. The United States needed millions of masks, and he wanted Parkdale to find a way to make them, The New York Times reported.
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