The Chinese Ministry of Commerce on Nov. 10 announced export restrictions on 13 fentanyl precursor chemicals to the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
The announcement comes after U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping’s bilateral meeting in South Korea on Oct. 30, during which Beijing agreed to curb drug exports and Washington agreed to halve fentanyl-related tariffs to 10 percent.
The Chinese regime is the primary source of illicit fentanyl entering the United States, supplying cartels with precursor chemicals to assemble fentanyl and deadlier analogs that largely get trafficked across the Mexican and Canadian borders. Early in his second term, Trump announced tariffs on China, Mexico, and Canada for failing to stem the flow of these drugs into the United States….