21 U.S.C. § 2302
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In this chapter:
- (1)The terms “alien”, “national”, and “national of the United States” have the meanings given those terms in section 1101 of title 8.
- (2)The term “appropriate congressional committees and leadership” means—
- (A)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Select Committee on Intelligence, and the majority leader and the minority leader of the Senate; and
- (B)the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Financial Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Speaker and the minority leader of the House of Representatives.
- (3)The terms “controlled substance”, “listed chemical”, “narcotic drug”, and “opioid” have the meanings given those terms in section 802 of this title.
- (4)The term “entity” means a partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, organization, network, group, or subgroup, or any form of business collaboration.
- (5)The term “foreign opioid trafficker” means— 1 So in original.
- (A)means 1 any foreign person that the President determines plays a significant role in opioid trafficking; and
- (B)may 1 include—
- (i)any entity of the People’s Republic of China that the President determines—
- (I)produces, manufactures, distributes, sells, or knowingly finances or transports any goods described in clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (8)(A); and
- (II)demonstrates a pattern of failing to take credible steps (including implementing appropriate know-your-customer procedures or cooperating with United States counternarcotics efforts) to detect or prevent opioid trafficking; and
- (ii)any senior official of the Government of the People’s Republic of China that—
- (i)any entity of the People’s Republic of China that the President determines—
- (6)The term “foreign person”—
- (7)The term “knowingly”, with respect to conduct, a circumstance, or a result, means that a person has actual knowledge, or should have known, of the conduct, the circumstance, or the result.
- (8)The term “opioid trafficking” means any illicit activity—
- (9)The term “person” means an individual or entity.
- (10)The term “United States person” means—
- (A)any citizen or national of the United States;
- (B)any alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States;
- (C)any entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including a foreign branch of such an entity); or
- (D)any person located in the United States.