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The bill trades greater transparency and data-driven oversight of semiconductor export controls — which can improve policy, accountability, and U.S. national-security posture — against risks that public disclosure and expanded controls will harm industry competitiveness, reveal enforcement vulnerabilities, strain agencies, and complicate diplomacy.
Policymakers and the public will receive rigorous, data-driven assessments (delivered within 360 days) to design and better-tailor semiconductor export controls.
Researchers, firms, and the general public will gain increased transparency through public disclosure and an unclassified inventory of controls, improving accountability and regulatory predictability.
U.S. national security interests (and taxpayers) will be supported by continued affirmation and enforcement of export controls that can slow PRC access to advanced semiconductor equipment and chips.
Enforcement agencies and national security actors risk exposing sensitive methods and effectiveness gaps if detailed impact data and inventories are made public, which adversaries could exploit.
U.S. semiconductor companies, suppliers, and consumers could face higher costs, constrained supplies, and reduced competitiveness if export controls are maintained or expanded and if granular commercial data are released.
Federal agencies and staff may be strained by the requirement to produce a comprehensive quantitative report within 360 days, diverting resources from other priorities.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires a public, data-driven report within 360 days assessing how U.S. semiconductor export controls have affected China’s military, industry, AI, and U.S. competitiveness.
Introduced April 15, 2026 by Greg Stanton · Last progress April 15, 2026
Requires the State Department, working with Commerce and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, to produce a public, data-driven assessment of how U.S. export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment and advanced integrated circuits have affected the People’s Republic of China. The unclassified report — due within 360 days of enactment and allowed an optional classified annex — must inventory controls, provide quantitative impact metrics across military, industry, AI, and U.S. competitiveness goals, evaluate foreign availability, identify successes and failures, recommend refinements, and be posted on the Department of State website. The bill also defines which congressional committees receive the report and establishes a short title for the Act.