Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 28 — Sanctions with Respect to Foreign Traffickers of Illicit Synthetic Opioids

§ 2312. Imposition of sanctions

Statutory text

The President shall impose five or more of the sanctions described in section 2313 of this title with respect to each foreign person that is an entity, and four or more of such sanctions with respect to each foreign person that is an individual, that—

is identified as a foreign opioid trafficker in a report submitted under section 2311(a) of this title;

the President determines is owned, controlled, directed by, knowingly supplying or sourcing precursors for, or knowingly acting for or on behalf of, such a foreign opioid trafficker;

the President determines has knowingly engaged in, on or after December 18, 2025, a pattern of significant activity that has materially contributed to opioid trafficking; or

the President determines—

has knowingly engaged in a pattern of providing significant financial, material, or technological support for, including through the provision of goods or services in support of, any activity or transaction described in paragraph (3); or

is owned, controlled, or directed by any foreign person described in subparagraph (A) or in paragraph (3), or has knowingly acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, such a foreign person.

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.

2019
Fentanyl Sanctions Act
Pub. L. 116–92 div. F title LXXII § 7212 · 133 Stat. 1198
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 2312
Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7212, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2265
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7212, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2265
Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 7212. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS. The President shall impose five or more of the sanctions described in section 7213 with respect to each foreign person that is an entity, and four or more of such sanctions with respect to each foreign person that is an individual, that— (1) is identified as a foreign opioid trafficker in a report submitted under section 7211(a); or (2) the President determines is owned, controlled, directed by, knowingly supplying or sourcing precursors for, or knowingly acting for or on behalf of, such a foreign opioid trafficker.
2025
Pub. L. 119–60 div. H title LXXXIII § 8316 · 139 Stat. 1858
Added · 21 U.S.C. § 2312(3); 21 U.S.C. § 2312(4)
Pub. L. 119–60 added pars. (3) and (4)
Unresolved: Pub. L. 119–60 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 119–60 added pars. (3) and (4).

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2025—Pars. (3), (4). Pub. L. 119–60 added pars. (3) and (4).

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions

Functions and authorities of President under this section delegated to Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, by section 1(d)(v) of Memorandum of President of the United States, Mar. 31, 2020, 85 F.R. 22343, set out as a note under section 2311 of this title.

Credits

2019–2025 · 2 acts

2019Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7212, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2265
2025Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXIII, § 8316, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1858.

Show as published

(Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7212, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2265; Pub. L. 119–60, div. H, title LXXXIII, § 8316, Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1858.)