§2353 — Title 21 Food and Drugs | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must punish foreign people he finds are knowingly involved in major trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or related opioids, including when they act through transnational criminal groups. Using emergency economic powers under U.S. law (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act), the President may block or forbid transactions in their property if the property is in the United States, enters the United States, or is held or controlled by a U.S. person. Within 180 days after April 24, 2024, and every year after, the President must tell Congress what actions were taken.

Title 21, §2353

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(a)The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (b) with respect to any foreign person the President determines—

(1)is knowingly involved in the significant trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids, including such trafficking by a transnational criminal organization; or

(2)otherwise is knowingly involved in significant activities of a transnational criminal organization relating to the trafficking of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids.

(b)The President, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), may block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a foreign person described in subsection (a) if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person.

(c)Not later than 180 days after April 24, 2024, and annually thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on actions taken by the executive branch with respect to the foreign persons identified under subsection (a).

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The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in subsec. (b), is title II of Pub. L. 95–223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1701 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1701 of Title 50 and Tables.

§2353 Imposition of Sanctions with Respect to Fentanyl Trafficking by Transnational Criminal Organizations