Business View Magazine Jan-2019

147 For our members, the key issue is whether raw materials are available in safe supply from other sources, and the fact is simply that they are not. China has, and will continue to be,THE virtual sole source on the globe that can handle the large-scale demand of finished product manufacturers in the U.S., and this did not come about organically.On the contrary, China’s role in our supply chain is the result of years of collaboration between our two countries, including the development of quality assurance, safety, good manufac- turing practices, and regulatory compliance. In short,we have built today’s positive and proven supply chain, and we want to con- tinue being the primary beneficiary of that hard work. We continue to work with the Office of the United States Trade Represen- tative (USTR) to make these concerns known, and find it promising that we have been able to secure exemptions for key ingredients including glucos- amine and sucralose.We remain optimistic that we will eventually be persuasive, allowing us to meet consumer demand as we shift our focus to other top policy goals in 2019. One area of particular focus is preventing dan- gerous products from entering the U.S. food sup-