00:00The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill imposing sanctions on Chinese officials
00:05and companies who don't do enough to prevent drug trafficking.
00:09It comes amid an opioid epidemic in the U.S., with upwards of 100,000 Americans dying from drugs like fentanyl each year.
00:17The bipartisan bill would make it easier to target Chinese producers and distributors of fentanyl precursors and other synthetic opioids.
00:25It would require them to know their U.S. customers and cooperate with law enforcement.
00:30To become law, it needs to be passed by the Senate and signed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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