UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING IMPORTATION OF NARCOTIC RAW MATERIAL.

SEC. 2601. UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING IMPORTATION OF NARCOTIC RAW MATERIAL. (a) Review Required.— The President shall conduct a review of United States narcotics raw material policy to determine the advisability of continued reliance on the “80–20 rule” (21 C.F.R. sec. 1312.13) by which at least 80 percent of United States imports of narcotics raw material must come from India and Turkey. (b) Agencies To Be Involved.— This review shall include information and views from the Department of State, the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Commerce and any other agencies the President determines appropriate. (c) Nature and Contents.— This review shall include— (1) a report on the extent of the diversion taking place from the licit to the illicit market in India from the farm gate through the stockpile; (2) an evaluation of the efforts being made by the Government of India to stop diversion from the licit to the illicit market, to104 STAT. 4912limit its stockpile of opium gum, and to limit and regulate the amount of land and number of farmers devoted to poppy cultivation, and the success or failure of these efforts; (3) a description of the steps the President has taken to encourage these actions on the part of the Indian government, what further steps are contemplated and what action will be taken if Indian action proves ineffective; (4) an assessment of whether continued reliance on the 80–20 rule serves to encourage these actions, an assessment of what circumstances would make continued reliance on the rule unacceptable to the President, and proposals for executive or legislative modification of the rule under those circumstances; (5) an assessment of the feasibility of India converting from the opium gum to the concentrated poppy straw method of opium production; (6) an assessment of the effects on United States supplies of narcotic raw material in the absence of 80–20; and (7) an evaluation of the potential for market manipulation under the 80–20 rule. (d) Report to Congress.— The President shall report the results of this review to Congress not later than April 1, 1991.