Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act

Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act

Other short titles	Alcoholic Beverage Labeling Act of 1988 Alcohol and Drug Traffic Safety Act of 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 Asset Forfeiture Amendments Act of 1988 Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act of 1988 Comprehensive Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Amendments Act of 1988 Drug-Free Public Housing Act of 1988 Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 Drunk Driving Prevention Act of 1988 Federal Aviation Administration Drug Enforcement Assistance Act of 1988 Insular Areas Drug Abuse Amendments of 1988 International Narcotics Control Act of 1988 Justice Department Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Enhancement Act of 1988 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Amendments of 1988 Minor and Technical Criminal Law Amendments Act of 1988 Money Laundering Prosecution Improvements Act of 1988 National Commission on Measured Responses to Achieve a Drug-Free America by 1995 Authorization Act National Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988 Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988 Public Housing Drug Elimination Act of 1988 Truck and Bus Safety and Regulatory Reform Act of 1988 Uniform Federal Crime Reporting Act of 1988 Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1989
Long title	An Act to prevent the manufacturing, distribution, and use of illegal drugs, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	CDTA, ADAAA
Nicknames	Anti-Drug Abuse Amendments Act of 1988
Enacted by	the 100th United States Congress
Effective	November 18, 1988
Citations
Public law	100-690
Statutes at Large	102 Stat. 4181 aka 102 Stat. 4312
Codification
Titles amended	21 U.S.C.: Food and Drugs
U.S.C. sections created	21 U.S.C. ch. 13, subch. I § 801 21 U.S.C. ch. 13, subch. I § 830 21 U.S.C. ch. 13, subch. II § 971
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 5210 by Thomas Foley (D–WA) on August 11, 1988 Committee consideration by House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House Education and Labor, House Foreign Affairs, House Government Operations, House Energy and Commerce, House Interior and Insular Affairs, House Judiciary, House Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House Public Works and Transportation, House Ways and Means Passed the House on September 22, 1988 (375-30) Passed the Senate on October 14, 1988 (87-3, in lieu of S. 2852) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on October 22, 1988 (346-11) with further amendment Senate agreed to House amendment on October 22, 1988 (agreed voice vote) Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on November 18, 1988

The Chemical Diversion and Trafficking Act of 1988 was an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act to regulate precursor chemicals, essential chemicals, tableting machines, and encapsulating machines by imposing record keeping and import/export reporting requirements on transactions involving these materials. Prior to these restrictions being put in place, the U.S. had been the primary source of chemicals used in South American cocaine manufacture. According to the DEA, the Act sharply reduced these precursor exports and cocaine manufacturers responded by purchasing from chemical suppliers outside the U.S. The U.S. in turn successfully lobbied for inclusion of chemical controls in the 1988 United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, which included two Tables of controlled precursors.