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- China’s Commerce Ministry requires permits for exporting two more chemicals to the United States, Mexico and Canada, increasing the regulated list to 18.
- The ministry announced the permit rule ahead of President Xi Jinping’s meeting with President Donald Trump.
- The United States calls China the world’s largest producer of many fentanyl and methamphetamine precursors.
- The U.S. has urged Beijing to take more aggressive action to curb unregulated precursor flows.