#NewsTrade President Trump announced that, during recent talks, China has agreed to halt the production and export of chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl. He said Beijing will strengthen high-level controls on these precursor substances in order to reduce the number of fentanyl-related deaths in the United States. Additionally, China—having already moved in 2019 to regulate the entire class of such dangerous drugs—indicated it will implement further measures to tighten enforcement and oversight.