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Creates an IEEPA-based sanctions regime, visa ineligibility, and expedited congressional review for PRC hostile acts against Taiwan.
Official title: Require the imposition of sanctions with respect to the People's Republic of China if the People's Republic of China threatens the security of Taiwan, and for other purposes.
Introduced March 11, 2026 by Daniel Scott Sullivan · Last progress March 11, 2026
The bill greatly strengthens U.S. deterrence and creates fast, powerful economic tools to punish or deter PRC aggression against Taiwan, but does so at the cost of significant economic pain for consumers and businesses, expanded compliance and liability burdens, reduced congressional oversight, and risks of escalation or harms to immigrants and innocent parties.
Taxpayers, U.S. service members, and allies: The bill strengthens deterrence by reaffirming U.S. commitment to Taiwan, directing policymakers to prioritize peace, and publicizing PRC military activity, which together aim to reduce the near-term risk of conflict.
Taxpayers and national security decisionmakers: The bill creates rapid economic tools — targeted sanctions, asset freezes, visa bans, export/investment prohibitions, and steep duties — that let the U.S. quickly penalize or deter PRC aggression without immediate large-scale combat deployments.
Financial institutions and regulatory agencies: The bill clarifies and harmonizes statutory definitions (accounts, covered institutions, INA immigration terms, 'United States person', and a mens rea standard for 'knowingly'), reducing ambiguity for compliance and litigation.
Consumers, importers, retailers, and small businesses: Duties (up to 500%) and possible sharp trade restrictions could sharply raise prices, disrupt supply chains, and increase costs for households and businesses.
Financial institutions, U.S. companies with China ties, and investors: Sudden prohibitions, broad secondary-designation authorities, and expanded targeting risk transaction disruptions, large compliance costs, asset losses, and harm to U.S. firms and investors.
Immigrants, lawful visitors, and dual nationals: Automatic inadmissibility, visa revocations, and the blending of INA terms into national-security enforcement could bar individuals quickly and without usual due-process protections.
Based on analysis of 10 sections of legislative text.
Authorizes the President to identify and block property of PRC/CCP actors who engage in or imminently plan hostile acts against Taiwan, requires rapid presidential determinations and recurring certifications, creates an expedited congressional procedure to adopt a joint resolution imposing sanctions, and makes sanctioned aliens inadmissible while preserving narrow exceptions and temporary national-security waivers. The bill defines covered hostile acts (military invasion, blockades, seizure of territory, attacks on critical infrastructure), sets out detailed definitions, grants IEEPA authorities to impose financial sanctions without a new emergency declaration, and provides criteria and procedures for terminating or reimposing sanctions.