The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) is an annual report by the Department of State to Congress prepared in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act. It describes the efforts of key countries to attack all aspects of the international drug trade in Calendar Year 2006. Volume I covers drug and chemical control activities. Volume II covers money laundering and financial crimes.
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Here are a couple of interesting parts that I found with a quick review.
- A California man pled guilty in a federal district court in California in August of 2006 to conspiring to smuggle counterfeit currency into the United States. He agreed to a statement read in court, which stated that during the investigation leading to his arrest, he had promised to provide an undercover agent $2 million in high-quality counterfeit U.S. $100 bills or "supernotes, manufactured in the DPRK. Investigators seized precisely that amount of counterfeit currency in the port of Los Angeles.
- Afghanistan produced more than 90 percent of the world's opium poppy during 2006, and it is the world's largest heroin producing and trafficking country.
- Afghanistan remained the world's largest producer of opium in 2006, cultivating 172,600 hectares of opium poppy according to USG estimates. This equates to 5,644 metric tons of opium, up from 4,475 metric tons in 2005.
- Mexico is a major transit and source country for illicit drugs reaching the United States. Roughly 90 percent of all cocaine consumed in the United States transits Mexico.
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