; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings. Sec. 3. Sense of Congress. Sec. 4. Definitions. Title I—Sanctions with Respect to Foreign Opioid Traffickers Sec. 101. Identification of foreign opioid traffickers. Sec. 102. Sense of Congress and reporting on international opioid control regime. Sec. 103. Imposition of sanctions. Sec. 104. Description of sanctions. Sec. 105. Waivers. Sec. 106. Procedures for judicial review of classified information. Sec. 107. Briefings on implementation. Title II—Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking Sec. 201. Commission on combating synthetic opioid trafficking. Title III—Other Matters Sec. 301. Director of National Intelligence program on use of intelligence resources in efforts to sanction foreign opioid traffickers. Sec. 302. Department of Defense funding. Sec. 303. Department of State funding. Sec. 304. Department of the Treasury funding. Sec. 305. Appropriate committees of Congress defined. 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that from June 2017 through June 2018 more than 48,000 people in the United States died from an opioid overdose, with synthetic opioids (excluding methadone), contributing to a record 31,500 overdose deaths. While drug overdose deaths from methadone, semi-synthetic opioids, and heroin have decreased in recent months, overdose deaths from synthetic opioids have continued to increase. (2) The objective of preventing the proliferation of synthetic opioids though existing multilateral and bilateral initiatives requires additional efforts to deny illicit actors the financial means to sustain their markets and distribution networks. (3) The People’s Republic of China is the world’s largest producer of illicit fentanyl, fentanyl analogues, and their immediate precursors. From the People’s Republic of China, those substances are shipped primarily through express consignment carriers or international mail directly to the United States, or, alternatively, shipped directly to