Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Chapter 28 — Sanctions with Respect to Foreign Traffickers of Illicit Synthetic Opioids
§ 2301. Sense of Congress
Statutory text
It is the sense of Congress that—
the United States should apply economic and other financial sanctions to foreign traffickers of illicit opioids to protect the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States and the health of the people of the United States;
it is imperative that the People’s Republic of China follow through on full implementation of the new regulations, adopted , to treat all fentanyl analogues as controlled substances under the laws of the People’s Republic of China, including by devoting sufficient resources for implementation and strict enforcement of the new regulations; and
the effective enforcement of the new regulations should result in diminished trafficking of illicit fentanyl originating from the People’s Republic of China into the United States.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Fentanyl Sanctions Act
Pub. L. 116–92 div. F title LXXII § 7202 · 133 Stat. 1198
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 2301
(Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7202, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2262.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7202, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2262.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 7202. SENSE OF CONGRESS. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the United States should apply economic and other financial sanctions to foreign traffickers of illicit opioids to protect the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States and the health of the people of the United States; (2) it is imperative that the People’s Republic of China follow through on full implementation of the new regulations, adopted May 1, 2019, to treat all fentanyl analogues as controlled substances under the laws of the People’s Republic of China, including by devoting sufficient resources for implementation and strict enforcement of the new regulations; and (3) the effective enforcement of the new regulations should result in diminished trafficking of illicit fentanyl originating from the People’s Republic of China into the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Short Title
Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7201, , 133 Stat. 2262, provided that: “This title [enacting this chapter and amending section 2291h of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse] may be cited as the ‘Fentanyl Sanctions Act’.”