BIS Considering Export Controls on Chinese Precursor Chemical Suppliers
The Bureau of Industry and Security is considering new export controls on certain machinery or lab equipment used by Chinese suppliers of precursor chemicals, which are used to produce fentanyl. BIS Undersecretary Alan Estevez, speaking during a Feb. 28 House…
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Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, said the agency is working with the Drug Enforcement Administration “to assess whether we can put restrictions” on those items. “So we're doing that kind of assessment, working both on the enforcement and my export administration side to see what we can do to crack down on that,” he said. Estevez was responding to a question from Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., who asked how the administration is working to “pressure” China to “combat financial flows from illicit fentanyl.”