academic backgrounds all concurred that China can 
do more to stem the flow of fentanyl. 
(8) According to the United Nations General 
Assembly, the drug trade poses a threat to ‘‘develop-
ment, peace and security and human rights’’, and 
the 
United 
Nations 
Convention 
against 
Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Con-
vention), a multilateral treaty against transnational 
organized crime including in the realm of narcotics 
signed and ratified by China which entered into 
force in 2003, obligates States Parties to ‘‘ensure ef-
fective action by its authorities in the prevention, de-
tection and punishment of the corruption of public 
officials’’. 
(9) Combating illicit fentanyl is a top priority 
of the Trump Administration and the President has 
called it ‘‘outrageous’’ that fentanyl comes from 
China. The Trump Administration has both high-
lighted China’s role in the crisis and targeted Chi-
nese manufacturers and traffickers, and at an Au-
gust 16, 2018, cabinet meeting, President Trump di-
rected then Attorney General Sessions to step up ef-
forts to stem inflows of fentanyl from China. 
(10) Statewide in New York, the number of 
fentanyl related deaths increased by nearly 160 per-
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cent from 2015 to 2016. In April 2018, in Suffolk 
County, New York, Federal agents seized more than 
90 lbs of fentanyl and heroin with $10,000,000 
street value, the largest opioid bust in Suffolk Coun-
ty history to date. 
(11) At the 2018 G20 summit in Buenos Aires, 
China had agreed to tighten fentanyl controls. How-
ever, there has not yet been demonstratable and sus-
tained evidence of commitment. 
SEC. 3. REPORT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 
the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report that identifies each person in the People’s 
Republic of China and Chinese Government official in-
volved in the production of fentanyl and its trafficking into 
the United States. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain 
a classified annex. 
(c) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congres-
sional committees’’ means— 
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(1) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Financial Services, and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the 
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Af-
fairs, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and 
Transportation, and the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate. 
SEC. 4. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that— 
(1) the President should impose financial sanc-
tions under the International Emergency Economic 
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) against each 
person and government official identified in the re-
port required by section 3; 
(2) the President should impose sanctions 
under section 1263(b) of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (22 U.S.C. 
2656 note) against each person and government offi-
cial identified in the report required by section 3 
that meet the criteria under paragraph (3) or (4) of 
section 1263(a) of such Act; 
(3) the President should impose financial sanc-
tions pursuant to section 805 of the Foreign Nar-
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cotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1904) 
against each person and government official identi-
fied in the report required by section 3; and 
(4) the President should exclude each person 
and government official identified in the report re-
quired by section 3 as ineligible for visas or admis-
sion to the United States pursuant to section 
212(a)(2)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1182(a)(2)(C)). 
Æ 
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