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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The Biden administration announced it is going after a number of people and businesses with sanctions as an important step in the fight against the fentanyl crisis raging across the country.
The U.S. Treasury Department announced Tuesday morning it is imposing sanctions on 17 separate companies and individuals based in China and Mexico for their roles in the fentanyl crisis and illegal drug trade within the U.S.
The targets of these new sanctions aren't making the fentanyl themselves, the department said, but play an important role by supplying the drug producers with pill press machines and tools that help mold counterfeit markings on pills.
“Treasury’s sanctions target every stage of the deadly supply chain fueling the surge in fentanyl poisonings and deaths across the country,” said Under Secretary of the Treas...
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