Notes

Keanen Andrews
11/02/2016
United States
Imported Drugs

The ECOFIN committee deals with the economic and financial affairs of that specific country, and drugs that are being illegally brought to the U.S is a major problem. ECOFIN needs to address this because the dealers who are selling them are the ones getting the money and in the outcome. The people who buy them are losing their money along with them possibly dying. The U.S knows this is a major problem because citizens end up taking these drugs and they get addicted so if they continue this they might die and the government does not want that because the duty of the government is to protect their citizens. The U.S. knows this is true because one example is the drugs being imported from the west border from tunnels or etc. and citizens from that border buy the goods.

This is definitely an issue and the U.S has tried multiple ways to stop this. The recent way we have attempted this was to use guard dogs at borders so they would sniff the cars, and if they smelt something the officers broke down the car looking in every place and finds the drugs. Another way we have tried to handle this was to find the underground tunnels since the sellers needed to cross without being noticed but after officers find them the track them to the original location. During the "United States Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act" which prohibited interstate shipment with importations of unapproved drugs including foreign-made drugs as well. This was focused on regulation procedures and to stay way from unreasonable health risk. This was made a national issue as well between both the U.S and Mexico so this has become a major issue. The U.S agreed with the Single Convention on Narcotic drugs,1961. One main resolution that was included was" To reduce the number of international treaty organs exclusively concerned with control of narcotic drugs, to make provision for the control of the production of raw materials of narcotic drugs". Seventy-three countries have agreed on this convention and one of this included Mexico. What this meant was that these countries agreed on lowering the production and trading of drugs.

The U.S does not want to completely shut down the drug importations because they can't but the U.S does indeed plan to slow this down by stopping drug trades along with catching the dealers who are trying to sneak into the borders. A suggestion from the U.S to other countries around the world would be to try to slow it down as well because the outcome of people taking these drugs is the same and if we stop this we could help save lots of lives.

Sources:
International Narcotics Control Board- www.incb.org
U.S. Food &a Drug Administration (FDA)- www.fda.gov