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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 830 

Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the fentanyl crisis 

and urging the Biden administration to take certain actions to combat 

the flow of fentanyl precursors from China to North America. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 1, 2023 

Mr. MIKE GARCIA of California (for himself, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mrs. 

HINSON, Mr. MCCORMICK, Mr. WILLIAMS of New York, Mrs. BICE, and 

Mr. MILLS) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in 

the fentanyl crisis and urging the Biden administration 

to take certain actions to combat the flow of fentanyl 

precursors from China to North America. 

Whereas the Drug Enforcement Agency estimated that approximately 75,000 Americans died from synthetic 

opioids such as fentanyl in 2022, many of which were 

poisoning deaths from fentanyl mixed with counterfeit illicit drugs; 

Whereas, despite adding fentanyl to its list of controlled 

drugs, the Chinese Communist Party has refused to mitigate the production of fentanyl precursors coming from 


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certain provinces within the People’s Republic of China, 

such as the Hebei Province; 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party officially suspended 

all counternarcotics and law enforcement cooperation 

with the United States since August 2022; 

Whereas the Chinese Communist Party has refused to investigate and punish individuals sanctioned by the United 

States Government for connections to fentanyl trafficking 

activities; 

Whereas Chinese cartels such as the Zheng Cartel export 

fentanyl precursors to Mexican cartels such as the Jalisco 

and Sinaloa cartels, which then traffic fentanyl into the 

United States; and 

Whereas the People’s Republic of China has made it their 

ambition to replace the United States as a global leader, 

and would stand to benefit from America’s weakening 

through hundreds of thousands of our citizens dying from 

fentanyl poisonings: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns the Chinese Communist Party for 

3 its role in prolonging the American fentanyl crisis 

4 through its inaction in holding the Chinese pro5 ducers of fentanyl precursors accountable; 

6 (2) calls on the Biden administration to impose 

7 additional sanctions and charge Chinese entities 

8 found responsible for supplying fentanyl precursors 

9 to Chinese cartels; 


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1 (3) calls on the Biden administration to des2 ignate Chinese financial institutions found to be 

3 evading, or assisting with the evasion of United 

4 States sanctions; 

5 (4) calls on the Biden administration to impose 

6 sanctions against any official within the Chinese 

7 Communist Party found to have ties to fentanyl pre8 cursor production or trafficking; 

9 (5) calls on the Biden administration to develop 

10 a plan to counter the shipment of fentanyl precur11 sors to North America from China; and 

12 (6) calls on the Biden administration to add the 

13 People’s Republic of China to the list of Major Drug 

14 Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries, 

15 as specified under the FENTANYL Results Act 

16 (Subtitle C of title LV of Public Law 117–263). 

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