How the first Trump administration and China reduced US fentanyl deaths
Marcus Noland (PIIE), Julieta Contreras (PIIE), and Lucas Rengifo-Keller (former PIIE)
The Trump administration this year cited China's role in fueling fentanyl flows among the reasons for hiking tariffs on that country, which retaliated by raising tariffs on US products. New research shows that cooperation between the first Trump administration and Beijing in 2019 resulted in nearly 1,000 fewer fentanyl overdose deaths than would have occurred otherwise.



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