From the Executive Summary: "Our national economic strength and quality of life depend on the safe and efficient movement of goods throughout our nation's borders and beyond. Supply chains--the interconnected webs of businesses, workers, infrastructure processes, and practices that underlie the sourcing, manufacturing, transportation, and sale of goods--are vital to our everyday lives. In the past they have been invisible to consumers, but the pandemic and its consequences have made clear their vital importance to our daily lives, livelihoods, and basic day-to-day convenience and well-being. To perform well, supply chains require success in transportation, in production, and in sourcing. Americans pay lower prices and face fewer disruptions when goods move efficiently and reliably and businesses and consumers have predictable access to goods and materials. [...] The Administration has taken aggressive action to respond to supply chain disruptions stemming from the current pandemic. But even before these disruptions worsened over the course of the past year, the President issued Executive Order 140171 calling for a review of the transportation and logistics industrial base. These recommendations are meant not only to respond to the current disruptions, but to stand the test of time by building supply chains resilient to future disruptions, in whatever form they take."