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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 747
To impose sanctions with respect to Chinese producers of synthetic opioids
and opioid precursors, to hold Chinese officials accountable for the spread
of illicit fentanyl, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY28, 2025
Mr. B
ARR(for himself, Mr. NUNNof Iowa, and Mr. MURPHY) introduced the
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Oversight and
Government Reform, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provi-
sions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To impose sanctions with respect to Chinese producers of
synthetic opioids and opioid precursors, to hold Chinese
officials accountable for the spread of illicit fentanyl,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Chinese Fentanyl 4
Act of 2025’’. 5
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SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 1
It is the sense of Congress that the Government of 2
the People’s Republic of China should— 3
(1) work with the United States Government to 4
identify a list of unregulated chemicals used to cre-5
ate precursor chemicals that bear increased scrutiny; 6
(2) require the proper labeling of chemical and 7
equipment shipments in accordance with inter-8
national rules; 9
(3) immediately implement ‘‘know-your-cus-10
tomer’’ procedures for chemical shipments; and 11
(4) direct all relevant departments and agen-12
cies, including the National Narcotics Control Com-13
mission, the Ministry of Public Security, the General 14
Administration of Customs, and the National Med-15
ical Products Administration of the Government of 16
the People’s Republic of China to establish new rules 17
to crack down on precursor trafficking and enforce 18
such rules swiftly. 19
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS TO THE FENTANYL SANCTIONS ACT. 20
(a) D
EFINITIONS.—Section 7203(5) of the Fentanyl 21
Sanctions Act (21 U.S.C. 2302(5)) is amended— 22
(1) by striking ‘‘The term ‘foreign opioid traf-23
ficker’ means any foreign person’’ and inserting the 24
following: ‘‘The term ‘foreign opioid trafficker’— 25
‘‘(A) means any foreign person’’; 26
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(2) by striking the period at the end and insert-1
ing ‘‘; and’’; and 2
(3) by adding at the end the following: 3
‘‘(B) includes— 4
‘‘(i) any entity of the People’s Repub-5
lic of China that the President deter-6
mines— 7
‘‘(I) produces, manufactures, dis-8
tributes, sells, or knowingly finances 9
or transports any goods described in 10
clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (8)(A); 11
and 12
‘‘(II) fails to take credible steps, 13
including through implementation of 14
appropriate know-your-customer pro-15
cedures or through cooperation with 16
United States counternarcotics ef-17
forts, to detect or prevent opioid traf-18
ficking; and 19
‘‘(ii) any senior official of the Govern-20
ment of the People’s Republic of China or 21
other Chinese political official that— 22
‘‘(I) has significant regulatory or 23
law enforcement responsibilities with 24
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respect to the activities of an entity 1
described in clause (i); and 2
‘‘(II) aids and abets, including 3
through intentional inaction, opioid 4
trafficking.’’. 5
(b) I
DENTIFICATION OF FOREIGNOPIOIDTRAF-6
FICKERS.—Section 7211 of the Fentanyl Sanctions Act 7
(21 U.S.C. 2311) is amended— 8
(1) in subsection (a)(1)(A), by adding at the 9
end before the semicolon the following: ‘‘, including 10
whether the heads of the National Narcotics Control 11
Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the 12
General Administration of Customs, and the Na-13
tional Medical Products Administration of the Gov-14
ernment of the People’s Republic of China are for-15
eign opioid traffickers’’; and 16
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘5 years’’ and 17
inserting ‘‘10 years’’. 18
SEC. 4. AMENDMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL EMER-19
GENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT AND THE 20
TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT. 21
(a) P
ERIODICEVALUATION.—Section 203 of the 22
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 23
U.S.C. 1702) is amended by adding at the end the fol-24
lowing: 25
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‘‘(d) PERIODICEVALUATION.— 1
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—If the authority granted to 2
the President under this section is exercised with re-3
spect to a covered national emergency, the President 4
shall transmit to the appropriate congressional com-5
mittees, not less frequently than annually, a periodic 6
evaluation in writing that— 7
‘‘(A) assesses the effectiveness of the exer-8
cise of such authority in resolving the covered 9
national emergency; 10
‘‘(B) considers the views of public- and pri-11
vate-sector stakeholders; and 12
‘‘(C) discusses any potential changes to the 13
exercise of the authority for the purpose of 14
more effectively resolving the covered national 15
emergency. 16
‘‘(2) D
EFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 17
‘‘(A) the term ‘appropriate congressional 18
committees’ means— 19
‘‘(i) the Committee on Foreign Af-20
fairs, the Committee on Financial Services, 21
and the Committee on Oversight and Ac-22
countability of the House of Representa-23
tives; and 24
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‘‘(ii) the Committee on Homeland Se-1
curity and Governmental Affairs, the Com-2
mittee on Foreign Relations, and the Com-3
mittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban 4
Affairs of the Senate; and 5
‘‘(B) the term ‘covered national emergency’ 6
means a national emergency that— 7
‘‘(i) the President has declared, within 8
the preceding 5-year period, with respect 9
to any national emergency regarding inter-10
national drug trafficking; and 11
‘‘(ii) has not terminated.’’. 12
(b) C
ONSULTATION AND REPORTS.—Section 204 of 13
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 14
U.S.C. 1703) is amended— 15
(1) by striking ‘‘the Congress’’ each place it ap-16
pears and inserting ‘‘the appropriate congressional 17
committees’’; and 18
(2) by adding at the end the following: 19
‘‘(e) A
PPROPRIATECONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 20
D
EFINED.—In this section, the term ‘appropriate congres-21
sional committees’ has the meaning given that term in sec-22
tion 203(d)(2).’’. 23
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(3) AUTHORITY TO ISSUE REGULATIONS .—Sec-1
tion 205 of the International Emergency Economic 2
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1704) is amended— 3
(A) by striking ‘‘The President’’ and in-4
serting ‘‘(a) The President’’; and 5
(B) by adding at the end the following: 6
‘‘(b) In issuing regulations under subsection (a) pur-7
suant to a covered national emergency (as defined in sec-8
tion 203), the President shall— 9
‘‘(1) consider the costs and benefits of available 10
statutory and regulatory alternatives; 11
‘‘(2) evaluate the costs and benefits for the pur-12
pose of expeditiously resolving the applicable na-13
tional emergency; 14
‘‘(3) establish criteria for the eventual termi-15
nation of the applicable national emergency; and 16
‘‘(4) include in the basis and purpose incor-17
porated in the regulations— 18
‘‘(A) an explanation of how the regulations 19
will resolve the applicable national emergency; 20
and 21
‘‘(B) a discussion of the costs and bene-22
fits.’’. 23
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SEC. 5. EXCEPTION RELATING TO IMPORTATION OF 1
GOODS. 2
(a) I
NGENERAL.—A requirement to block and pro-3
hibit all transactions in all property and interests in prop-4
erty pursuant to this Act or any amendment made by this 5
Act shall not include the authority or a requirement to 6
impose sanctions on the importation of goods. 7
(b) G
OODDEFINED.—In this section, the term 8
‘‘good’’ means any article, natural or manmade substance, 9
material, supply or manufactured product, including in-10
spection and test equipment, and excluding technical data. 11
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