China’s first wide-publication in years of legal action that has led to the arrests of traffickers also follows weekend trade talks with the United States to prepare for a summit originally planned for the end of the month of the U.S. and Chinese leaders in Beijing.

U.S. President Donald Trump has postponed the visit over the Iran war, but said he would ​take the trip to Asia in “about five ‌or ⁠six weeks”.

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“We are pulling together a digital tracking system that is very sophisticated,” Barcena said, speaking at an event in Washington during her first U.S. visit as foreign minister, a post she was appointed to in June.

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The executive director of a US police union has been charged with attempting to illegally import a fentanyl analogue, and has been accused of using the police union’s office to communicate with her suppliers and mail the drugs.

Joanne Segovia, the executive director of the San Jose Police Officers Association in California, was charged with attempt to unlawfully import valeryl fentanyl, a variation of the powerful synthetic opioid, and faces up to 20 years in prison, the justice department said in a statement on Wednesday.

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia allegedly used “her personal and office computers to order thousands of opioid and other pills to her home and agreed to distribute the drugs elsewhere in the United States”, the justice department said.

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An example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

The U.S. is stemming the flow of opioid painkillers, but Washington remains nervous about deadly synthetics like fentanyl, saying federal safeguards will expire in February and China should be sanctioned if it doesn’t rein in the No. 1 killer in the U.S. drug crisis.

White House drug policy officials, meanwhile, are telling everyone they meet about fentanyl’s deadly potency, warning it could be “one and done” even for intermittent users.

The U.S. is starting to get a better handle on a still-deep drug crisis, with fatal overdoses dropping from about 70,200 in 2017 to roughly 68,000 in 2018, according to provisional federal data.

Users often don’t realize that traffickers are cutting heroin, cocaine and other drugs with the deadly synthetic opioid.

Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who is at the forefront of the opioids fight, says Congress should immediately take the crucial first step of permanently scheduling all forms of illicit fentanyl.

Under the Controlled Substance Act, drugs are scheduled or categorized to prioritize law enforcement action.

The Drug Enforcement Administration issued a temporary scheduling order that allows prosecutors to pursue criminal charges against anyone who manufactures, distributes or handles fentanyl-related substances.

The order is set to expire on Feb. 6, so Mr. Portman is pushing the FIGHT Act with Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, to make fentanyl illegal in all its forms.

Class-wide scheduling has streamlined the legal process so that policymakers don’t have to ban each analog of fentanyl individually. Failure to renew the scheduling would incentivize traffickers to chemically manipulate their forms of fentanyl in a way that skirts the law.

A coalition of all 56 state and territorial attorneys general endorsed the measure in a Dec. 11 letter to leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee. They cited a massive November bust in Ohio that netted 20 kilograms of fentanyl that was laced with carfentanil, an even more powerful synthetic opioid.

“The potency of the fentanyl-related substances in this single bust was enough to kill every man, woman, and child in the state of Ohio several times over,” they wrote.

Another get-tough measure made it into law as part of a defense authorization bill this month.

The measure from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat, and Sen. Tom Cotton, Arkansas Republican, would allow the administration to sanction manufacturers and traffickers of fentanyl in other countries. The bill is particularly aimed at China, which pledged to crack down on domestic labs that are responsible for much of fentanyl flooding U.S. communities.

Mr. Schumer and Mr. Cotton aren’t ideological soul mates, per se, but they’re both tough on China. Mr. Cotton’s office said the senators brainstormed the legislation in the Senate gym, where they both like to work out in the morning.

“The Chinese government is the world’s largest drug dealer,” Mr. Cotton said. “China has allowed fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to pour into the United States for years, killing tens of thousands of Americans. Our law enforcement and intelligence agencies need additional resources to target the fentanyl producers, traffickers, cartels, and other criminals who are funneling this poison across our borders and into our communities.”

Reps. Vern Buchanan, Florida Republican, and Seth Moulton, Massachusetts Democrat, sponsored a similar measure in the House.

“I love it. It comes from the Congress, so it is the people telling China to stop it,” said Michael Gray, who started the Actus Foundation to spotlight the synthetic-drug crisis after his daughter, Amanda, died from a dose of pure fentanyl.

She was not addicted to any drug but self-medicated intermittently for a diagnosed mental illness. The night she died, what she thought was heroin turned out to be a lethal dose of pure fentanyl.

As her parents grieved, they looked around and realized no one was advocating for people who weren’t addicted but who have been swept up unwittingly in the deadly fentanyl wave.

“It’s a paradigm shift,” Mr. Gray told The Washington Times. “If my daughter did exactly what she did in exactly the way she did it in 2012 or back, she’d be alive today.”

James Carroll, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, mentions the “One and Done” concept in nearly every public forum and interaction with people on the front lines of the drug crisis. He wants every American to take heed, especially young people who more often experiment with drug use, according to agency spokesman Peter Hoffman.

“‘One and Done’ is an effective message that we need to be bringing to young people all around the country,” Mr. Hoffman said. “For earlier generations, it may have been less risky to experiment with substances, but that is not the case today. There are thousands of heartbreaking stories that involve someone trying a drug one time and it being fatal because of what was in the substance.”

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“Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing … your companies HOME and making your products in the USA,” Trump tweeted in a blistering set of statements Friday morning. The president went on to call on companies to “search for & refuse” shipments of the opioid painkiller fentanyl from China.

TRADE WAR: CHINA SLAPS TARIFFS ON $75B OF U.S. GOODS

The U.S. has said it plans to impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods in two steps, on Sept. 1 and Dec. 15. China responded Friday with new tariffs on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation, deepening a conflict over trade and technology that threatens to tip a weakening global economy into a recession.

On Friday evening, Trump said products coming from China that were slated to be hit with a 10 percent tariff on Sept. 1 will now face a 15 percent tariff. Trump also said goods and products currently being taxed at 25 percent will be taxed at 30 percent starting Oct. 1

But as Trump rejects such warnings while keeping his foot on the gas in the clash with China, American businesses responded to his latest guidance by urging continued trade talks.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce issued a statement saying it wants to see continued “constructive engagement” with China.

TRUMP ORDERS US COMPANIES TO BLOCK ALL FENTANYL SHIPMENTS FROM CHINA

“The U.S. business community has for many years called out the lack of progress in addressing China’s unfair trade practices. … Despite our concerns, the 40-year-old trade relationship between our two countries has been for the most part productive, constructive, and mutually beneficial,” said Myron Brilliant, executive vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

“While we share the President’s frustration, we believe that continued, constructive engagement is the right way forward. Time is of the essence. We do not want to see further deterioration of US-China relations. We urge the administration and the government of China to return to the negotiating table.”

Trump, meanwhile, pressured major shipping companies to block fentanyl from China.

“I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!),” Trump tweeted Friday.

China added fentanyl products to the country’s list of narcotics subject to state control after Xi Jinping met with Trump in December 2018, but the White House says it has not seen substantial action on blocking major shipments.

But the shipping companies suggested they’re already doing what they can.

FedEx and UPS both said in statements they already work to identify and remove illegal shipments.

“FedEx already has extensive security measures in place to prevent the use of our networks for illegal purposes. We follow the laws and regulations everywhere we do business and have a long history of close cooperation with authorities,” the company said.

“UPS takes a multi-layered approach to security and compliance to identify and prevent delivery of illegal Fentanyl and other illicit substances as well as any other attempts of noncompliant shipments,” the shipping business said.

Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street after Trump’s comments. The Dow Jones Industrial Average sank more than 600 points Friday.

The stocks of all three companies the president mentioned also dropped as traders tried to understand what the implications for them were.

Meanwhile, Trump also lashed out at the Federal Reserve after its chairman, Jerome Powell, stopped short of saying the U.S. central bank is prepared to cut interest rates for a second time this year.

TRUMP RIPS FED: ‘WHO IS OUR BIGGER ENEMY,’ POWELL OR CHINA’S XI?

In a tweet, Trump compared Powell — whom he’s repeatedly criticized, despite hand-picking him almost two years ago — to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

“As usual, the Fed did NOTHING!” Trump tweeted. “My only question is, who is our bigger enemy, Jay Powell or Chairman Xi?”

His tweet came shortly after Powell gave a speech at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in Wyoming in which he promised policymakers will “act as appropriate” to sustain the record economic expansion. The economic outlook, Powell said, remains strong, despite uncertainties resulting from the U.S.-China trade war, slowing global growth and muted inflation.

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Stocks had been wavering between gains and losses earlier after China said it would retaliate against the latest round of tariffs imposed by Washington with duties on $75 billion of U.S. products.

China said Friday that it will also increase import duties on U.S.-made autos and auto parts. The retaliation pulled global markets into negative territory.

Fox Business’ Paul Conner and Megan Henney, Fox News’ Rich Edson and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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