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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 28A — Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence Off Fentanyl

§ 2351. Finding; policy

Statutory text

(a)

Finding

Congress finds that international trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and is a national emergency.

(b)

Policy

It shall be the policy of the United States to apply economic and other financial sanctions to those who engage in the international trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids to protect the national security, foreign policy, and economy of 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.

  1. Pub. L. 118–50 div. E title I § 3101 · 138 Stat. 936

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 2351

    (Pub. L. 118–50, div. E, title I, § 3101, Apr. 24, 2024, 138 Stat. 936.)

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 118–50 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 118–50, div. E, title I, § 3101, Apr. 24, 2024, 138 Stat. 936.)

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

Credits

(Pub. L. 118–50, div. E, title I, § 3101, , 138 Stat. 936.)

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