Sponsors (10)
The bill strengthens U.S. national security and protects domestic technological leadership by restricting exports of high-performance chips to foreign-adversary countries, but does so at the cost of lost sales for exporters, supply-chain disruptions, added compliance burdens, and legal uncertainty for firms and customers.
U.S. national security (military and cyber defenses): reduces foreign-adversary access to high-performance, AI-capable chips, lowering the risk that adversaries enhance AI-enabled military or cyber capabilities.
U.S. tech sector and workers: preserves America's comparative advantage in high-performance computing and AI hardware by limiting exports of advanced integrated circuits, supporting domestic competitiveness and innovation.
Congress and oversight bodies: increases transparency and legislative input by requiring the Secretary to brief key congressional committees 30 days before changing thresholds and to justify national-interest impacts.
U.S. exporters and chip manufacturers: will lose market access to covered buyers in foreign-adversary countries, reducing sales and revenue and harming companies (including small exporters) and workers.
Manufacturers and product-makers that rely on these chips (including non-data-center uses close to thresholds): may face supply shortages, redesign costs, and production delays that disrupt supply chains and product availability.
Exporters and compliance teams: will incur increased legal and administrative costs and potential shipment delays because they must track complex ECCN definitions and parent-company headquarters rules.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Gives Commerce authority to require or deny export, reexport, or in‑country transfer licenses for defined advanced integrated circuits to foreign adversaries or entities tied to them.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by John Peter Ricketts · Last progress December 4, 2025
Gives the Secretary of Commerce authority to require and to deny export, reexport, or in‑country transfer licenses for certain “advanced integrated circuits” when the destination is a foreign adversary country or the recipient is an entity (or controlled by a parent) headquartered in such a country. It defines which chips are covered by referencing existing ECCN categories and specific technical performance thresholds, excludes devices not designed or marketed for data centers, and allows the Secretary to later adjust the technical thresholds after review by the End‑User Review Committee and Congress. The rulemaking and license authority take effect on enactment. The Secretary may change the technical definitions starting 30 months after enactment but must brief relevant Congressional committees at least 30 days before publishing those changes and include assessments of impacts on PRC AI firms, PRC military/cyber capabilities, and U.S. comparative computing advantage.