Over the coming years this may save more lives than anything any American politician has ever done.
Not in the same league as the number of lives saved by medical and public health interventions, clean water etc. but in the hundreds of thousands.
From Bloomberg, November 10:
....MOREChina added more than a dozen fentanyl precursors to a list of controlled exports to the US, Mexico and Canada, in an apparent move to implement commitments made in a trade deal reached between Xi Jinping and Donald Trump last month.
The Chinese Commerce Ministry, alongside four other government agencies, imposed new export license requirements for shipping 13 precursor chemicals to the three North American nations, state broadcaster CCTV reported Monday. The controlled substances include various piperidine derivatives and entire families of related compounds used in making fentanyl.
This move represents a step in fulfilling China’s pledge to combat the flow of synthetic opioid ingredients to the US, which Trump has cited as a reason for raising tariffs on Chinese goods earlier this year. The rate of those levies was halved to 10%, effective Monday, as part of the Xi-Trump deal that stabilized ties between the world’s two largest economies.
Read More: Why Trump Put Fentanyl at Core of US-China Trade Spat: QuickTakeAs part of the broader October trade agreement, Beijing committed to “take significant measures to end the flow of fentanyl to the United States,” according to a White House statement....
