---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 2301"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "2301"
heading: "Sense of Congress"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/2301"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Sanctions with Respect to Foreign Traffickers of Illicit Synthetic Opioids"
---

# §2301. 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](/usc/21/2302.md?p=3) to protect the [national](/usc/21/2302.md?p=1) 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](/usc/21/2302.md?p=3) 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.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7202, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 2262.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 116–92, div. F, title LXXII, § 7201, Dec. 20, 2019, 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’.”