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Plan, which collectively serve as companions to the National Drug Control Strategy. This compendium of documents provides strategic guidance linking international efforts with domestic efforts to reduce the supply of illicit substances within our communities. Principle 1: Strengthen foreign partnerships to address drug production and trafficking as a common and shared responsibility. Strengthening foreign partnerships is a crucial element in our efforts to reduce the supply of illicit substances in America’s communities. Analyses indicates that criminal organizations in Mexico supply most of the cocaine (after sourcing it from Colombia), methamphetamine, heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl smuggled into the United States320 and have increased their production of fentanyl and its analogues, using precursor chemicals sourced primarily from the PRC. 321 Additionally, over 90 percent of the cocaine seized and tested in the United States is produced in Colombia.322 TCOs remain the greatest criminal threat to the United States: they control lucrative smuggling corridors across the region to bring tons of illicit drugs across our borders every year.323 Once in the United States, the drugs are delivered to consumer markets using vast transportation and distribution routes those criminal organizations oversee and control.324 Consistent with the Administration’s National Security Strategic Guidance, we will engage with key partners and collaborate on tangible and sustainable efforts to combat drug production and trafficking from all its global sources. We will expand our approach beyond capacity building by advancing economic opportunity for the most vulnerable within these countries, providing state presence and security that adheres to the rule of law and human rights, combatting transnational criminal networks, countering corruption, and reducing illicit drug production consistent with partner nation and United States law. We will prioritize Asian and Latin American countries with the most direct effect on drug trafficking and use in the United States and will draw upon long- « « « « « « NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL STRATEGY 87 standing relationships with like-minded partners in Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and Europe, along with supporting the work of multilateral organizations, to address the changing dynamics and increasing sophistication of the global drug trade. A. Develop holistic approaches for engaging with Asian and Latin American countries with a direct effect on drug trafficking in the United States. (Agencies Involved: DHS; DOD; DOJ; DOS; HHS; IC/NSC; Treasury; USAID; USPIS) Within drug producing countries, there is a substantial correlation between areas lacking in development programs that reach the most vulnerable and impoverished citizens and the presence of TCOs.325 The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) focuses on strengthening legal economies in rural, underdeveloped, and postconflict areas via projects that focus on expanding land titling, increasing the competitiveness of licit goods, and establishing agricultural value chains through market analyses and development assistance. USAID also offers technical assistance to rural producers and organizations to improve the productivity of licit crops and increase rural smallholder sales. These efforts have helped local organizations become effective and reliable partners in the planning and implementation of sustainable socio-economic development initiatives and have helped provide former coca growers with a viable and licit income source.326 The Department of State leads the United States government’s efforts to reduce the production of drugs outside the United States by pursuing partnerships to disrupt the flow of drugs into the United States, and help mitigate the consequences of drug trafficking such as violence, criminality, corruption, and human exploitation in our global partner nations. B. Support Mexico’s efforts to strengthen its counter-drug institutions and initiatives. (Agencies Involved: DHS/CBP, USCG, ICE; DOJ/ATF, DEA, FBI, OCDETF; DOD; DOS; TREASURY) Mexico is a primary source country for the cultivation, production, and shipment of heroin and illicit marijuana, as well as a key country in the production and movement of synthetic drugs and the movement of cocaine into the United States. 327 The Governments of the United States and Mexico have developed a common understanding of the negative economic, security, and public health impact of transnational criminal organizations in the production and trafficking of illicit substances. With Mexico, we must continue to expand cooperation to address common threats. Both governments agree that reducing the supply of illicit drugs is a shared responsibility. Mexico is working to eradicate poppy fields more effectively, destroy clandestine laboratories, and interdict heroin and other illicit drugs before they reach the U.S. border. ONDCP will continue to use the Heroin/Fentanyl Working Group (HFWG) as a means to coordinate Embassy Mexico City and U.S. interagency efforts in Mexico. Despite challenges stemming from Mexico’s 2020 national security law, the interagency will leverage our partnership with Mexican law enforcement officers, analysts, chemists, investigators, prosecutors, and military 

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