President Donald Trump is considering imposing a 10% tariff on Chinese imports in retaliation for the flow of fentanyl.
“We are talking about a 10% tariff based on the fact that they are sending fentanyl to Mexico and Canada,” he said Tuesday in statements to the press from the White House.
This same Monday, the day of his inauguration, he had announced that he would impose a 25% tariff on those other two countries starting February 1 for that same reason and the arrival of illegal migration.
Trump described the entry of this drug into the United States through the northern and southern borders of the United States as “massive” and regretted that there are people who are dying and families who are being destroyed because of this powerful opioid.
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The Republican leader noted that he spoke “the other day” with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, and that he told him that he did not want that “shit” in the country.
Trump pointed out that he reached an agreement with Xi Jinping for the capital punishment to be applied in China for drug trafficking, and highlighted that the Chinese president promised that this sentence would be given for those who sent fentanyl to the United States.
“And of course (the now former president, Joe) Biden did not take it up again. I had everything closed. “We are going to get it,” added Trump, who estimated the deaths caused by this drug in the country at 300,000.
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The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) however estimates the number of fatal overdoses recorded last year in the United States due to this synthetic opioid at around 70,000.
With information from EFE
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