United States President Donald Trump recently threatened to impose an additional 10 per cent tariff on goods coming from China in response the illegal import into the U.S. of the opioid fentanyl.
Fentanyl has become the latest battleground in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies. China is currently the primary source of the precursor chemicals needed to manufacture fentanyl.
China and the U.S. have taken steps to tighten the transfer of these chemicals. However, the illegal fentanyl pipeline has switched from direct export into the U.S. to Mexico, where fentanyl is manufactured and then smuggled into the U.S.
