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Claims from the meeting with president xi jinping was not directly a trade issue but nevertheless one due to the president's harder to potential fix for a problem deadly to many thousands of americans across our country. china is a processor of illicit fentanyl and the president asked xi jinping if he was classified as a controlled substance. >> when donald trump asked him to reclassify fentanyl which is taking hundreds of thousands of lives as a controlled substance that has massive legal implications and may be the death penalty for china for example. he said this right away. >> donald trump...

Deadly substance of the mall. trump added the, quote, china crackdown on this horrid drug using the death penalty for distributors and pushers the results will be incredible. in 2017 the centers for disease control and prevention reported the number of total overdose deaths from drugs was 70,327. this number included 28,466 people who died from synthetic opioids, mainly fentanyl. illicit fentanyl is largely responsible for the increase in drug overdose deaths in the us so this negotiation between the two presidents comes at the right time and could be a step in the right direction towards reve...

Disappointments. >> history here with china promises to be not very good. however, i will say this. the president, xi, has never been this involved. >> agreed to in principle according to president trump, reduce and improve the 40% tariff that china puts on u.s. cars, pledge to buy make more agricultural goods from the u.s u.s., and reclassify fentanyl as a controlled substance. >> this will include specific dates, specific action items. >> president trump agreed to postpone for 90 days a plan january 1st increase in tariffs on chinese goods. china has also pledged to discuss the most thorny i...

. president trump may have calmed investors by reaching a trade deal. president trump called it an incredible deal but things aren't exactly locked in place. president trump will keep tariffs on $200 billion of chinese goods at 10% instead of raising them on 25% in january which was originally planned. in return china will call what is being called a very substantial amount of agriculture, energy and other goods. also, china has agreed to reclassify fentanyl as a controlled substance. that means anyone in china who sells opioid to the u.s. will be subject to maximum penalties in china. setti...