Sponsor
John Moolenaar
Representative · R-MI
Representative · R-MI
Official title: To require the Secretary of Commerce in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence to implement a process for establishing a rolling annual standard for the sale of certain integrated circuits to certain countries.
Introduced April 15, 2026 by John Moolenaar · Last progress April 15, 2026
The bill trades stronger, metric-driven export controls and clearer definitions that help preserve U.S. AI advantages and improve oversight for significant economic costs, added compliance burdens, regulatory uncertainty, and risks to international cooperation and trade.
Federal government and U.S. national security agencies gain stronger ability to stop adversaries from obtaining advanced AI hardware/software, reducing the risk that foreign actors approach U.S. aggregate AI compute capacity.
Exporters, tech companies, and regulators get more predictable, quantitative rules and clearer definitions (annual export thresholds, standardized 'AI hardware' metrics, and clarified 'country/entity of concern') that make enforcement and compliance more consistent.
Policymakers, industry, and state governments receive regular, public metrics and country-level breakdowns of foreign AI hardware capabilities, improving transparency for risk assessment, congressional oversight, and targeted policy responses.
U.S. tech firms, chipmakers, and exporters face reduced export revenue and lost market opportunities because stronger export controls and annual limits restrict legal sales to certain foreign customers.
Exporters and federal/state agencies face higher compliance costs, new licensing and testing requirements, and slower approvals, increasing operational burdens and potentially delaying shipments.
Companies and foreign partners face regulatory uncertainty because the Secretary retains broad discretion and can expand the definition of covered 'AI hardware,' making future licensing outcomes and market access unpredictable.
Based on analysis of 5 sections of legislative text.
Creates an annual, metrics-based process for measuring AI hardware capacity in adversary countries and requires Commerce to set yearly export thresholds tied to those metrics.
Creates a new, annual government process to measure and limit the spread of advanced AI computing hardware to U.S. adversaries and other "countries/entities of concern." It requires Commerce and the DNI to publish objective, quantitative metrics about AI hardware capacity (processing power, interconnect bandwidth, memory bandwidth, etc.), report country- and metric-level breakdowns to Congress, and use those metrics to set a yearly export-control threshold for AI hardware. The law emphasizes keeping U.S. and allied supply chains dominant, preventing adversaries from indigenizing AI hardware at scale, and preserves Commerce’s discretion not to reduce controls or approve exports based on the law's assessments.