Manufacturers' reliance on outsourcing to China hurts everyone
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The coronavirus pandemic is driving up the price of heroin, methamphetamine, and fentanyl as Mexican cartels scramble to get their hands on Chinese-manufactured chemicals now in short supply.
“The cartels are having a lot of difficulty producing drugs right now, and when the supply is low the price always goes up,” a US federal law enforcement source told The Post. “China has pretty much stopped production on the chemicals they need to do business.”
The pandemic has led to a shortage of workers at labs in China which produces more than 80 percent of precursor chemicals such as benzylfentanyl, norfentanyl and 4-anilinopiperidine used by the cartels to manufacture synthetic opioids such as black market heroin made in clandestine labs and fentanyl.
A year ago those free traders at Daily Kos were fulminating over Trump’s tariffs hurting consumers. Just wait til their readers discover this latest attack on their lifestyle.
