Washington, Nov. 12 -- China said on Monday it is making good on its pledge to crack down on chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl, a key issue for President Donald Trump during recent talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping as they aimed to take steps to ease a trade war. Beijing announced new export restrictions on 13 "drug-making" chemicals to the United States, Canada and Mexico, including those that are used to produce the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the US every year. After meeting Xi in South Korea last month, Trump said China would help end the fentanyl crisis and he would ease a related tariff from 20% to 10%. "What the Trump administration has essentially agreed with Beijing is for Beijing to restart what it had been doing during the second part of 2024," before Trump returned to the White House, said Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow focusing on the opioid crisis at the Brookings Institution. Cooperation on fentanyl has long been a sticking point in relations between Beijing and Washington. In 2019, during Trump's first term, Beijing took a huge step by restricting fentanyl and related substances at the request of the US president. ap...