In March 2020, President Donald Trump applied the Defense Production Act against the American company 3M which allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to obtain as many N95 respirators as it needs from 3M.[51][52] In early April 2020, Berlin politician Andreas Geisel alleged that a shipment of 200,000 N95 masks that it had ordered from American producer 3M's China facility were intercepted in Bangkok and diverted to the United States. Berlin police president Barbara Slowik stated that she believed "this is related to the US government's export ban."[53] However, Berlin police later corrected themselves and confirmed that the shipment was not seized by U.S. authorities, but was said to have simply been bought at a better price, widely believed to be from a German dealer or China.[54][55]