Key highlights from the Presidential Determination:
Major Drug Transit/Producing Countries
Identified under U.S. law: Afghanistan, The Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Burma, China (PRC), Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Venezuela.
Inclusion reflects geography/economics, enabling drug flows, not necessarily government cooperation or effort.
Countries Failing Demonstrably
Afghanistan, Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, Venezuela.
These failed to meet international obligations or U.S. standards for drug control.
U.S. assistance to Bolivia, Burma, Colombia, and Venezuela deemed vital to U.S. interests.
Regional Security Measures
Border security tightened, overdose deaths reportedly declining.
Canada: PM Carney named a fentanyl czar, advanced inspection powers.
Mexico: Pres. Sheinbaum boosted cooperation, surged 10k National Guard to border, seized fentanyl/precursors, extradited 29 cartel leaders. U.S. expects sustained, deeper actions.
U.S. designated Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs), unlocking sanctions, prosecutions, visa bans.
Country-By-Country Threat
China (PRC)
Largest source of fentanyl precursors.
Punished with 20% tariffs and removal of de minimis duty-free imports.
U.S. demands stronger Chinese enforcement and prosecutions.
Colombia
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