In a rare bipartite decision, two senators presented legislation in the last attempt to combat the flow of fentanyl and its precursors in the United States from China, Mexico and through other borders – a reason why the President Donald Trump gave for its new prices.
By imposing taxes or prices, imports from Mexico, Canada and China, Trump says that these countries have failed to solve fentanyl traffic in the United States, among others. The governments of these nations all say that they have cooperated on the issue and Trump postponed prices on Thursday for one month on most of Mexico goods and certain imports from Canada.
The bill does not link the prices to the smuggling of fentanyl, but seeks an extended authority to sanction Chinese public entities or controlled by the State, including banks, involved in the financing of foreign opioid traffic. The measure also would have the American government to follow more chemicals that can be used to make methamphetamines.
The legislation was presented Thursday by Senator Jim Risch, R-Assaho, who is chairman of the senatorial committee of foreign relations, and the senator of the New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen, the best democrat of the committee.
Risch described China as “the greatest source of fentanyl and synthetic opioid precursors to Mexican cartels” and he accused the Chinese government of supporting activity.
“These opioids then fall on our southern border and kill more than 100,000 Americans each year. This must end and the authors must be held responsible, “said Risch.
Shaheen said the United States should “use each tool at our disposal to cut the fentanyl flow”.
She said that China is “the main supplier of fentanyl precursors fueling this epidemic, and it did not do enough to slow down the export of these chemicals to Mexican transnational criminal groups that seek to traditionize fentanyl in the United States”
Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for Chinese Ebassy in Washington, accused the United States of spreading “all kinds of lies” on the issue of Fentanyl.
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“We are ready to carry out pragmatic cooperation with the United States on the basis of equality and mutual respect, but we firmly oppose the United States using the problem of fentanyl as an excuse to exert pressure, threaten and blackmail China,” said Liu.
Last year, a report by a special chamber committee focused on the fight against the Chinese government said Beijing fueled the fentanyl crisis in the United States by subsidizing the manufacture of materials used by traffickers to manufacture the drug outside the country.
The Chinese government says that it has taken many measures, notably “hardly hitting against fentanyl crimes”, “apply strict control on precursors of fentanyl substances” and “the promotion of global governance of fentanyl substances”.
In June, the Chinese public security ministry said the police arrested a suspect identified by American police in a case involving a complicated network of money laundering and drug trafficking in China, Mexico and the United States. The suspect would have led a automotive sales company in the United States engaged in the illicit trade in foreign currencies.
In the United States, the Drug Encompement Administration noted that the precursors and the equipment of Fentanyl to make pills flow from China to laboratories in Mexico, which made the powder of fentanyl and pills.
Trump’s latest prices on Chinese property threaten to disrupt cooperation on the issue of Chinese government, because Beijing is upset that Trump binds prices for smuggling fentanyl.
“The United States, no one else, is responsible for #Fentanylcrisis in the United States,” said the Chinese Foreign Affairs on X. “In a spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken solid measures to help the United States deal with the problem.”
Other trips to the United States to put pressure on China with higher prices would only “undermine our dialogue and cooperation in orders,” said the ministry.
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