NCJ Number
112779
Date Published
1988
Length
46 pages
Annotation
This report provides a section-by-section analysis of the International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 (H.R. 4841) and recommends that it be passed without amendment.
Abstract
H.R. 4841 contains $36 million in new authorizations for fiscal 1989. One-quarter of the bill consists largely of technical provisions designed to unify standards used in the certification process for bilateral and multilateral aid and for trade. Among the new initiatives in the bill are: establishing a Latin American Regional Antinarcotics Force within the Organization of American States; a special assistance package for Columbia; establishing a process for determining which countries are major drug transit countries for purposes of certification; and prohibiting economic and military aid to drug traffickers. Other provisions speed up the State Department's Bureau of International Narcotics Matters procurement process, waive the Export-Import Bank's prohibition on financing military sales if the sales are to be used by democratic countries for antinarcotics purposes, and authorize funds for the State Department to develop machine readable visas. A chronology of antinarcotics legislation and a list of hearings are appended.