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The bill increases protection against foreign-adversary risks in connected vehicles and creates federal processes and oversight to enforce restrictions, but it raises consumer costs, regulatory uncertainty, civil‑liberties concerns, and risks of supply‑chain disruption and trade retaliation.
Vehicle owners and the general public face a lower risk that connected vehicle components from covered foreign actors will enable remote control or data exfiltration, improving safety and national security.
U.S. automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and software firms could gain market protection and increased demand for domestically authorized components, helping preserve jobs and competitiveness.
The bill clarifies and consolidates federal authority (Commerce/Executive) and creates processes (authorized-items list, rulings, advisory input, annual reporting) to enable faster, more coordinated federal action and oversight on connected-vehicle ICT supply‑chain risks.
Consumers and car buyers may face higher prices and reduced model/feature availability if imports or popular connected components are restricted, increasing costs for middle‑class families.
The bill's broad national‑emergency and executive authorities could enable intrusive surveillance or regulatory actions and give the Secretary substantial power to reinstate prior rules, raising privacy and civil‑liberties concerns.
Targeted supply‑chain or trade actions (especially toward specific countries) risk provoking retaliation that could harm U.S. auto jobs, exports, and related industries.
Based on analysis of 8 sections of legislative text.
Phases in U.S. bans on importing, manufacturing, selling, or introducing into commerce connected vehicles, covered software, and later hardware tied to China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea, with reporting and coordination requirements.
Official title: Prohibit the importation, manufacture, sale, resale, or introduction into interstate commerce in the United States of connected vehicles and related software and hardware associated with foreign adversaries.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Bernardo Moreno · Last progress April 29, 2026
Prohibits the importation, manufacture, sale, resale, and introduction into interstate commerce of connected vehicles, covered vehicle software, and, on a phased timetable, connected-vehicle hardware that are tied to four specified foreign adversary countries (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) or to firms controlled by those interests. It sets definitions of covered items, allows agency consultation, preserves and coordinates existing Commerce Department rules, requires annual reporting to Congress on enforcement and effectiveness, and phases implementation (key dates: Jan 1, 2027 for vehicles/software; hardware prohibitions phased beginning Jan 1, 2030 and completed by Jan 1, 2032).