---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 2351"
title: "21"
title_heading: "Food and Drugs"
number: "2351"
heading: "Finding; policy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/21/2351"
units:
  - "Chapter 28A — Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence Off Fentanyl"
  - "Subchapter I — Sanctions in Response to National Emergency Relating to Fentanyl Trafficking"
---

# §2351. Finding; policy

- (a) **Finding—** Congress finds that international [trafficking](/usc/21/2341.md?p=4) 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](/usc/21/2341.md?p=4) of fentanyl, fentanyl precursors, or other related opioids to protect the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

## Source credit

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