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February 1, President Donald Trump announced a 10% tariff on Chinese goods In order to stop “the flow of drugs against smuggling like fental in the United States, through illegal distribution networks,” which “created a national emergency, including a public health crisis”.
Trump was right when he stated that “Chinese officials did not take the necessary actions to stop Precursor chemicals Known criminal cartels and extinguished money laundering by transnational criminal organizations. “This is in line with what I advised him when I was a secretary for health and human services in his first term.
Among the most significant health crises facing the nation is the continuation of the production, shipping and distribution of fental from Chinese companies. Fentanil, synthetic opioid more powerful than morphine, was the main contribution to the crisis of overdose of opioids in the United States.
It is estimated that over 80,000 people kill Fentanil every year in the United States. Nationally, Fentanil appeared as a leading cause of death for individuals between the ages of 18 and 45. The drug implementation administration identified China as the primary source of fental and related substances sold in the US, often through international mail and expression of shipment canals.
China has a national monopoly of nicotine pusing uncertain crying supplies. Completion of a prohibition of legal, US -produced flavored crying products could help stop flow. File: Different Vapes, nicotine products and a new spree tape, which contains a chemical that imitates nicotine, shelves of a line in the Colorado store. (Reuters/ Kevin Mohatt/ File Photo)
We all hope to be new tariffs, which include the provisions that suspend flawless exemption for low-value shipments below $ 800-Dollar, which was used to smuggle the fantanil and his chemicals of Prekursor to the United States, will cross the long way to stop the problem.
Unfortunately, however, Fentanil is no longer the only product that smuggles from China threatening the health and safety of Americans.
China also has a state corporation with an authorized monopoly status for the sale of nicotine products. This monopoly provides a significant amount of annual financing to the communist regime. In 2023, the receipts made $ 210 billion, which is $ 10 billion shyly funding the entire army.
One of the most important Chinese nicotine products is the aromatized cry, which the earth continues to illuminate the units of the United States.
In 2023, over 60% of the vapes available in the United States were illegal, and most originate from China. This is because there is increasing evidence that some of these products contain harmful contamination, such as heavy metals, pesticides and other toxins, due to lacquered production standards in Chinese factories.
This asks the question: Now that the US has taken significant measures to suffocate the prevalence of Chinese fental within our borders, what can it do to stop the whip of these dangerous Chinese nicotine products?
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First, the administration must demolish illegal imports of Chinese cry through targeted customs execution and severe penalties for the distributors of illegal e-cigarettes. In harmonized efforts to increase inspections on the entrance ports, punish poor actors in the supply chain as needed and will significantly reduce their presence.
Second, the administration, including incoming trade secretaries Howard Luttles and incoming trade representative Jamieson Greer, should overpower the appointed former President Joe Biden in the Decision of the International Trade Commission to prohibit the only legal, aromatized products with the aromatized US within 60 years -Dani a window that must do this. If it enters into force, this prohibition will allow the illegal market of China to become stronger.
China also has a state corporation with an authorized monopoly status for the sale of nicotine products. This monopoly provides a significant amount of annual financing to the communist regime. In 2023, the receipts made $ 210 billion, which is $ 10 billion shyly funding the entire army.
Finally, and most importantly, the administration should cooperate with the congress on re -introduction and adopting the legislation that Chinese companies consider responsible for violating US security and trade laws. The stopping of illegal imports of the fental through the tariffs of the first phase 2020 Phase 2020 shows that trade measures could press China to compliance. Extension of these policies to cover insecure crying products would protect US consumers from dangerous, unregulated imports.
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From the devastating fentan crisis that emphasized the imposition of tariffs on China to the revival of young crying guided by illegal aromatized e-cigarettes, the pattern is clearly not followed by rules.
The protection of our families, especially our children, must remain a top national priority from these dangers.
