Event Summary
The Trump administration 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. PIIE holds an online discussion of new research that examines illicit drug markets in the US and finds that cooperation between the first Trump administration and Beijing on fentanyl reduced American overdose deaths.
MODERATOR
Cullen S. Hendrix
Senior Fellow, PIIE
SPEAKERS
Julieta Contreras
Statistician, PIIE
Marcus Noland
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies, PIIE
Lucas Rengifo-Keller
Former Research Analyst, PIIE; PhD Student, Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park