Sec. 7. Modifications to international narcotics control program
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Section 489(a) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291h(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following: A separate section that contains— an assessment of the countries likely involved in the manufacture, production, or transshipment of synthetic opioids, including fentanyl and fentanyl analogues, that includes— the scale of legal domestic production and any available information on the number of manufacturers and producers of such opioids in such countries; information on any assessments by law enforcement agencies of the scale of illegal production in such countries, including a description of the capacity of illegal laboratories to produce such opioids; and the types of inputs used and a description of the primary methods of synthesis employed by illegal producers of such opioids in such countries; and an assessment of— the policies of such countries relating to the regulation of licit manufacture and interdiction of illicit manufacture, diversion, distribution, and shipment of such opioids; and the effectiveness of the implementation of such policies.
A separate section on policies for responding to new psychoactive substances (as defined in section 2 of the FENTANYL Results Act ), including— which foreign governments have articulated policies on scheduling of such substances; any data on the effects of such policies and other responses to such substances; and an assessment of which policies the United States Government may consider articulating. . Section 481(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2291(e)) is amended— in paragraph (2)— by striking means a country in which— and inserting “means— a country in which— ; by striking
(A)1,000 and inserting the following: 1,000 ; by striking
(B)1,000 and inserting the following: 1,000 ; by striking
(C)5,000 and inserting the following: 5,000 ; in subparagraph (A)(iii), as redesignated by this subsection, by adding or at the end; and by adding at the end the following: a country which is a significant direct source of illicit narcotic or psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances significantly affecting the United States; ; and by amending paragraph
(5)to read as follows: the term major drug-transit country means a country through which are transported illicit narcotic or psychotropic drugs or other controlled substances significantly affecting the United States; .
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