I am creating a report on the detailing the impacts of the United States/China trade war with respects to the face mask industry. I have to address the following topics. A little insight is helpful.

1. major issues of the trade war;
2. the tactics and measures taken by the United States and China during the trade war;
3. the impacts of the trade war on

• the central economic problem of allocating scarce resources,
• unemployment and inflation rates in the United States,
• fiscal and/or monetary policy decisions,
• the determination of foreign exchange rates based on supply and demand,
• international trade between the United States and nations other than China, and
• the long-range (5-year) potential impacts of the trade war on the face mask industry