The President of the United States has blamed China for the US opioid crisis and imposed complete rates for the Asian country.
The President of the United States Donald Trump has imposed global rates to Chinese products, citing the inability of Beijing to prevent the export of chemicals used in the production of Fenanil, a powerful opioid.
The United States have long accused Chinese companies of consciously providing groups involved in the production of the drug. Beijing reacted by announcing a series of rates on American products.
The White House has also accused Canada and Mexico from not preventing criminal groups from smuggling Fenestanil in the United States.
Trump had also planned to impose rates against both countries, but suspended the threat after obtaining some concessions relating to the increase in borders safety.
How serious is the Fenanil crisis in the United States?
Fenanil is a synthetic drug made by a combination of chemicals. It was approved by US regulatory agencies for use in medical environments such as analgesic in the 1960s – but since then it has become the main drug responsible for the deaths from opiate overdose in the United States.
More than 74,000 Americans died in 2023 after guiding drugs containing Fenense, according to the control centers of US diseases (CDC).
It is often mixed with other illegal drugs, which leads many users not to know that the substances that are consuming contain Fenetanil.
A dose of only two milligrams of Fenetanil – about the dimensions of the tip of a pencil – can be fatal.
In the last decade, the global Fenestanil supply chain has expanded, making police authorities and police authorities and public policy formulators are difficult.
China is the main source of chemical precursors used to produce Fenetanil.
Most of the Fenanil enters the United States through Mexico
From September, 2,040 kg of Fenanil were seized in the United States, according to the data published by the US Border Custody and Protection Agency (CBP).
Practically everything (98%) was intercepted on the border with South -ovest with Mexico. Less than 1% was seized on the northern border of the United States with Canada. The rest was seized on maritime routes or other US control posts.
According to the country’s Fighting Department (DEA), Mexican criminal organizations – including the Syaloa sign – play a key role in the production and distribution of Fenanil, methamphetamine and other illegal drugs in the United States.
The chemicals used to produce Fenetanil are obtained in China by traffickers and have turned into the final product in workshops in Mexico before being marked in the United States.
According to the goddess, the Synaloa sign uses a variety of tactics to hide the remittances that reach Mexico, how to hide chemicals between legitimate commercial goods, erroneously label containers, use facade companies and send through third countries.
The Trump government accused the Mexican collusion government with drug signs. Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the accusations are “slander”.
In December, shortly after Trump threatened Mexico with rates, the country’s security forces announced the largest Fenanil in history – equivalent to about 20 million doses.
China is the main source of Fenestanil chemicals
In 2019, China ranked Fenetanil as a controlled narcotic and subsequently added some of the chemicals used to manufacture it.
However, the trade in other chemicals involved in the production of Fenestanil – some of which may have legitimate purposes – remains without success since those involved in trade find new ways to get around the law.
An analysis of various US complaints, including the details of infiltrated agents who communicate with Chinese producers, suggests that some chemical companies in China have sold chemicals – including controlled – knowing that they are intended for the production of Fenestanil.
Dozens of complaints analyzed by BBC Verify, the control team of the facts of the BBC, cases of detail in which Chinese producers have provided instructions on how to produce Fenestanil from the products they sell, through encrypted platforms and cryptocurrency payments.
“Therefore, there are these enormous gaps in which the criminals are involved in the sale of legal products, but they consciously sell them to criminal entities,” says Vanda Felbab-Brown, Brookings’ foreign policy researcher.
In a declaration, China said she had some of the most rigorous laws in the world on drugs – and that she has already carried out joint operations with the United States in the past
“The United States must see and solve their problem with Fenanil,” he said.
And although China remains the main source of chemicals used to produce Fenetanil, the goddess has also identified India as an important emerging source of these chemical products.
In an American complaint since January 2025, two chemical companies in India were accused of providing the chemicals used to produce Fenetanil in the United States and Mexico.
The role of Canada in Fenanil’s trade
Trump has accused Canada – just like Mexico – of allowing “a large number of people and the entrance to the Fenanil” in the United States.
According to the data of the United States Customs Agency, only about 0.2% of all Fenanil convulsions that enter the border with the United States, while almost everything else has confiscated on the US border with Mexico.
But in January, the Canadian Financial Intelligence Agency reported that the criminal groups organized in Canada are increasingly involved in the production of Fenetanil, importing chemicals and laboratory equipment used to manufacture them from China.
Fenanil’s trade is a two -way road. In the first 10 months of 2024, the Canadian border service reported the seizure of 4.9 kg of Fenanil from the United States, while the United States border patrol intercepted 14.6 kg of Fenanil from Canada.
In December, the country promised to allocate $ 1.3 billion Canadian (about $ 5.3 billion) to combat Fenanil and increase borders safety.
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Source: Terra
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