the Attorney General shall establish an initiative to be known as the China Initiative , which shall be carried out by Assistant Attorney General for National Security (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the AAGNS ) to counter and deter the wide range of national security threats posed by the policies and practices of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government. (b) Staff The Assistant Attorney General for National Security is authorized to direct employees assigned to the National Security Division of the Department of Justice to assist with the China Initiative and shall hire an additional 10 full-time employees to carry out activities of the China Initiative. XII Fentanyl 1201. Imports prohibition (a) In General The President shall take such steps as may be necessary to ban the importation into the United States of any goods produced by a company the President determines is a Chinese company producing fentanyl precursors. (b) Waiver The prohibition under subsection (a) may be waived on a case-by-case basis if the President, acting through the Director of National Intelligence, the Attorney General, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Secretary of State, certifies to Congress that the company that is the subject of such waiver is proactively cooperating with United States efforts to interdict and identify shipments of fentanyl precursors to cartels. 1202. Stop CCP fentanyl (a) Short title This section may be cited as the Stop CCP Fentanyl Act . (b) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, the People’s Republic of China remains the number one source of fentanyl precursor chemicals, which are then processed and manufactured into synthetic opioids by Mexican drug cartels to bring into the United States. (2) Of the more than 100,000 drug overdose-related deaths in the United States in 2021, roughly 64,000 were from illicit fentanyl which is more than double the number of such deaths since 2019. (3) Almost 100 percent of