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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION S. 257
To improve the resilience of critical supply chains, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JANUARY27, 2025
Ms. C
ANTWELL(for herself, Mrs. BLACKBURN, and Ms. BLUNTROCHESTER)
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
A BILL
To improve the resilience of critical supply chains, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025’’. 5
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Additional responsibilities of Assistant Secretary of Commerce for In-
dustry and Analysis.
Sec. 3. Critical supply chain resilience and crisis response working group.
Sec. 4. Department of Commerce capability assessment.
Sec. 5. No additional funds.
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Sec. 6. Sunset.
Sec. 7. Definitions.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF ASSISTANT SEC-
1
RETARY OF COMMERCE FOR INDUSTRY AND 2
ANALYSIS. 3
In addition to the responsibilities of the Assistant 4
Secretary on the day before the date of the enactment of 5
this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall have the following 6
responsibilities: 7
(1) Promote the stability and resilience of crit-8
ical supply chains and critical and emerging tech-9
nologies that strengthen the national security of the 10
United States. 11
(2) Lead the Working Group established pursu-12
ant to section 3 and consult covered nongovern-13
mental representatives, industry, institutions of 14
higher education, and State and local governments 15
in order to— 16
(A) promote resilient critical supply chains; 17
and 18
(B) identify, prepare for, and respond to 19
supply chain shocks to— 20
(i) critical industries; 21
(ii) critical supply chains; and 22
(iii) critical and emerging tech-23
nologies. 24
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(3) Encourage the growth and competitiveness 1
of United States production and manufacturing in 2
the United States of emerging technologies. 3
(4) Assess the resilience, diversity, and strength 4
of critical supply chains and critical and emerging 5
technologies. 6
(5) In consultation with the Secretary of State 7
and the United States Trade Representative, sup-8
port the availability of critical goods from domestic 9
manufacturers, domestic enterprises, and manufac-10
turing operations in countries that are allies or key 11
international partner nations. 12
(6) Assist the Federal Government in preparing 13
for and responding to supply chain shocks to critical 14
supply chains, including by improving flexible manu-15
facturing capacities and capabilities in the United 16
States. 17
(7) Consistent with United States obligations 18
under international agreements, encourage and 19
incentivize the reduced reliance of domestic enter-20
prises and domestic manufacturers on critical goods 21
from countries that are described in section 7(2)(B). 22
(8) Encourage the relocation of manufacturing 23
facilities that manufacture critical goods from coun-24
tries that are described in section 7(2)(B) to the 25
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United States and countries that are allies or key 1
international partner nations to strengthen the resil-2
ience, diversity, and strength of critical supply 3
chains. 4
SEC. 3. CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE AND CRISIS 5
RESPONSE WORKING GROUP. 6
(a) E
STABLISHMENT.—Not later than 120 days after 7
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Sec-8
retary shall establish a working group to be known as the 9
‘‘Supply Chain Resilience Working Group’’ (in this Act re-10
ferred to as the ‘‘Working Group’’) composed of the Fed-11
eral agencies that rely upon the Industry and Analysis 12
Business unit analysis, including agencies enumerated in 13
subsection (c). 14
(b) A
CTIVITIES.—Not later than 1 year after the date 15
of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary shall 16
carry out the following activities— 17
(1) in consultation with the Working Group— 18
(A) assessing, mapping, and modeling crit-19
ical supply chains, including for critical and 20
emerging technologies, which may include— 21
(i) modeling the impact of supply 22
chain shocks on critical industries (includ-23
ing for critical and emerging technologies), 24
and critical supply chains; 25
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(ii) assessing the demand for and sup-1
ply of critical goods, production equipment, 2
and manufacturing technology needed for 3
critical supply chains, including critical 4
goods, production equipment, and manu-5
facturing technology obtained by or pur-6
chased from a person outside of the United 7
States or imported into the United States; 8
and 9
(iii) assessing manufacturing, 10
warehousing, transportation, and distribu-11
tion related to critical supply chains; 12
(B) identifying high priority gaps and 13
vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and crit-14
ical industries (including critical industries for 15
critical and emerging technologies) that— 16
(i) exist as of the date of the enact-17
ment of this Act; or 18
(ii) are anticipated to occur after the 19
date of the enactment of this Act; 20
(C) identifying potential supply chain 21
shocks to a critical supply chain that may dis-22
rupt, strain, or eliminate the critical supply 23
chain; 24
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(D) evaluating the capability and capacity 1
of domestic manufacturers or manufacturers lo-2
cated in countries that are allies or key inter-3
national partner nations to serve as sources for 4
critical goods, production equipment, or manu-5
facturing technology needed in critical supply 6
chains; 7
(E) evaluating the effect on market sta-8
bility that may result from the disruption, 9
strain, or elimination of a critical supply chain; 10
(F) evaluating the state of the manufac-11
turing workforce, including by— 12
(i) identifying the needs of domestic 13
manufacturers; and 14
(ii) identifying opportunities to create 15
high-quality manufacturing jobs; and 16
(G) identifying and describing necessary 17
tools, including commercially available risk as-18
sessment tools, that leverage data and industry 19
expertise to provide insights into critical supply 20
chain vulnerabilities, including how such tools 21
fulfill the requirements described in subpara-22
graphs (A) through (E); and 23
(2) in consultation with State and local govern-24
ments, the Working Group, and (as appropriate) 25
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countries that are allies or key international partner 1
nations— 2
(A) identifying opportunities to reduce 3
gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply chains 4
and critical industries; 5
(B) encouraging consultation between the 6
Federal Government, industry, covered non-7
governmental representatives, institutions of 8
higher education, and State and local govern-9
ments to— 10
(i) better respond to supply chain 11
shocks to critical supply chains and critical 12
industries (including critical industries for 13
emerging technologies); and 14
(ii) coordinate response efforts to sup-15
ply chain shocks; 16
(C) encouraging consultation between the 17
Federal Government and the governments of 18
countries that are allies or key international 19
partner nations; 20
(D) identifying opportunities to build the 21
capacity of the United States in critical supply 22
chains, critical industries, and emerging tech-23
nologies; 24
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(E) identifying opportunities to build the 1
capacity of countries that are allies or key 2
international partner nations in critical indus-3
tries (including critical industries for emerging 4
technologies) and critical supply chains; and 5
(F) developing and assessing contingency 6
plans and coordination mechanisms to improve 7
the response of critical supply chains and crit-8
ical industries to supply chain shocks. 9
(c) W
ORKINGGROUPMEMBERSHIP.—The Working 10
Group shall include a representative from each Federal 11
agency that relies on the analysis of the Industry and 12
Analysis business unit, including— 13
(1) the Department of State; 14
(2) the Department of Defense; 15
(3) the Department of Homeland Security; 16
(4) the Department of Transportation; 17
(5) the Department of Energy; 18
(6) the Department of Agriculture; 19
(7) the Department of the Interior; 20
(8) the Department of Health and Human 21
Services; 22
(9) the Office of the Director of National Intel-23
ligence; and 24
(10) the Small Business Administration. 25
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(d) DESIGNATIONS.—The Assistant Secretary shall— 1
(1) not later than 120 days after the date of 2
the enactment of this Act, designate— 3
(A) critical industries; 4
(B) critical supply chains; and 5
(C) critical goods; 6
(2) provide for a period of public comment and 7
review in carrying out paragraph (1); and 8
(3) update the designations made pursuant to 9
paragraph (1) not less frequently than once every 4 10
years, including designations for technologies that 11
are not described in section 7(12)(B) that the As-12
sistant Secretary considers necessary. 13
(e) I
MPLEMENTATION REPORT.—Not later than 1 14
year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the As-15
sistant Secretary shall submit to the appropriate commit-16
tees of Congress a report that— 17
(1) details supply chain activities, including ap-18
plicable activities described in subsection (b) and re-19
sponsibilities described in section 2, that the Assist-20
ant Secretary has conducted over the past year; 21
(2) describes supply chain data collected, re-22
tained, and analyzed by the Assistant Secretary over 23
the past year; 24
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(3) identifies and describes necessary tools, in-1
cluding commercially available risk assessment tools, 2
that leverage data and industry expertise to provide 3
insights into critical supply chain vulnerabilities, in-4
cluding how such tools fulfill each responsibility de-5
scribed in subsection (b); 6
(4) identifies and describes all Federal agencies 7
with authorities or responsibilities described in sub-8
section (b); and 9
(5) identifies Federal agencies, programs, and 10
bureaus with duplicative purposes to fulfill any of 11
the authorities or responsibilities described in sub-12
section (b). 13
(f) N
ATIONALSTRATEGY ANDREVIEW ONCRITICAL 14
S
UPPLYCHAINRESILIENCY AND MANUFACTURING IN 15
THEUNITEDSTATES.— 16
(1) I
N GENERAL.—Not later than 18 months 17
after the date of the enactment of this Act, and an-18
nually thereafter, the Assistant Secretary, in con-19
sultation with the Working Group, covered non-20
governmental representatives, industries, institutions 21
of higher education, and State and local govern-22
ments, shall submit to the relevant committees of 23
Congress a report that— 24
(A) identifies— 25
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(i) critical infrastructure that may as-1
sist in fulfilling the responsibilities de-2
scribed in section 2; 3
(ii) critical and emerging technologies 4
that may assist in fulfilling the responsibil-5
ities described in section 2, including such 6
technologies that may be critical to ad-7
dressing preparedness, weaknesses, and 8
vulnerabilities relating to critical supply 9
chains; 10
(iii) critical industries, critical supply 11
chains, and critical goods designated pur-12
suant to subsection (d); 13
(iv) other supplies and services that 14
are critical to the crisis preparedness of 15
the United States; 16
(v) substitutes for critical goods, pro-17
duction equipment, and manufacturing 18
technology; 19
(vi) methods and technologies, includ-20
ing blockchain technology, distributed ledg-21
er technology, and other critical and 22
emerging technologies, as appropriate, for 23
the authentication and traceability of crit-24
ical goods; and 25
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(vii) countries that are allies or key 1
international partner nations; 2
(B) describes the matters identified and 3
evaluated under subsection (b)(1), including— 4
(i) the manufacturing base, critical 5
supply chains, and emerging technologies 6
in the United States, including the manu-7
facturing base and critical supply chains 8
for— 9
(I) critical goods; 10
(II) production equipment; and 11
(III) manufacturing technology; 12
and 13
(ii) the ability of the United States 14
to— 15
(I) maintain readiness with re-16
spect to preparing for and responding 17
to supply chain shocks; and 18
(II) in response to a supply chain 19
shock— 20
(aa) surge production in 21
critical industries; 22
(bb) surge production of 23
critical goods and production 24
equipment; and 25
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(cc) maintain access to crit-1
ical goods, production equipment, 2
and manufacturing technology; 3
(C) assesses and describes— 4
(i) the demand and supply of critical 5
goods, production equipment, and manu-6
facturing technology; 7
(ii) the production of critical goods, 8
production equipment, and manufacturing 9
technology by domestic manufacturers; 10
(iii) the capability and capacity of do-11
mestic manufacturers and manufacturers 12
in countries that are allies or key inter-13
national partner nations to manufacture 14
critical goods, production equipment, and 15
manufacturing technology; and 16
(iv) how supply chain shocks could af-17
fect rural, Tribal, and underserved commu-18
nities; 19
(D) identifies threats and supply chain 20
shocks that may disrupt, strain, or eliminate 21
critical supply chains, critical goods, and critical 22
industries (including critical industries for 23
emerging technologies); 24
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(E) with regard to any threat identified 1
under subparagraph (D), lists any threat or 2
supply chain shock that may originate from a 3
country, or a company or individual from a 4
country, that is described in section 7(2)(B); 5
(F) assesses— 6
(i) the resilience and capacity of the 7
manufacturing base, critical supply chains, 8
and workforce of the United States and 9
countries that are allies or key inter-10
national partner nations that can sustain 11
critical industries (including critical indus-12
tries for emerging technologies) through a 13
supply chain shock; and 14
(ii) the effect innovation has on do-15
mestic manufacturers; 16
(G) assesses the flexible manufacturing ca-17
pacity and capability available in the United 18
States in the case of a supply chain shock; and 19
(H) develops a strategy for the Depart-20
ment of Commerce to support the resilience, di-21
versity, and strength of critical supply chains 22
and critical and emerging technologies to— 23
(i) support sufficient access to critical 24
goods by mitigating vulnerabilities in crit-25
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ical supply chains, including critical supply 1
chains concentrated in countries that are 2
described in section 7(2)(B); 3
(ii) consult with other relevant agen-4
cies to assist countries that are allies or 5
key international partner nations in build-6
ing capacity for manufacturing critical 7
goods; 8
(iii) recover from supply chain shocks; 9
(iv) identify, in consultation with the 10
Working Group and other relevant agen-11
cies, actions relating to critical supply 12
chains or emerging technologies that the 13
United States may take to improve re-14
sponses to supply chain shocks; 15
(v) protect against supply chain 16
shocks relating to critical supply chains 17
from countries that are described in sec-18
tion 7(2)(B); and 19
(vi) make specific recommendations to 20
implement the strategy under this section 21
and improve the security and resiliency of 22
manufacturing capacity and supply chains 23
for critical industries (including critical in-24
dustries for emerging technologies) by— 25
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(I) developing long-term strate-1
gies; 2
(II) increasing visibility into the 3
networks and capabilities of domestic 4
manufacturers and suppliers of do-5
mestic manufacturers; 6
(III) identifying and mitigating 7
risks, including— 8
(aa) significant 9
vulnerabilities to supply chain 10
shocks; and 11
(bb) exposure to gaps and 12
vulnerabilities in domestic capac-13
ity or capabilities and sources of 14
imports needed to sustain critical 15
industries (including critical in-16
dustries for emerging tech-17
nologies) or critical supply 18
chains; 19
(IV) identifying opportunities to 20
reuse and recycle critical goods, in-21
cluding raw materials, to increase re-22
silient critical supply chains; 23
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(V) consulting with countries 1
that are allies or key international 2
partner nations on— 3
(aa) sourcing critical goods, 4
production equipment, and man-5
ufacturing technology; and 6
(bb) developing, sustaining, 7
and expanding production and 8
availability of critical goods, pro-9
duction equipment, and manufac-10
turing technology during a supply 11
chain shock; and 12
(VI) providing guidance to other 13
relevant agencies with respect to crit-14
ical goods, supply chains, and critical 15
industries (including critical industries 16
for emerging technologies) that should 17
be prioritized to support United 18
States leadership in the deployment of 19
such technologies. 20
(2) P
ROHIBITION.—The report submitted pur-21
suant to paragraph (1) may not include— 22
(A) critical supply chain information that 23
is not aggregated; 24
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(B) confidential business information of a 1
private sector entity; or 2
(C) classified information. 3
(3) F
ORM.—The report submitted pursuant to 4
paragraph (1), and any update submitted thereafter, 5
shall be submitted to the relevant committees of 6
Congress in unclassified form and may include a 7
classified annex. 8
(4) P
UBLIC COMMENT .—The Assistant Sec-9
retary shall provide for a period of public comment 10
and review in developing the report submitted pursu-11
ant to paragraph (1). 12
(g) C
ONSULTATION.—Not later than 1 year after the 13
date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary 14
shall enter into an agreement with the head of any rel-15
evant agency to obtain any information, data, or assist-16
ance that the Assistant Secretary determines necessary to 17
conduct the activities described in subsection (b). 18
(h) R
ULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-19
tion may be construed to require any private entity— 20
(1) to share information with the Secretary or 21
Assistant Secretary; 22
(2) to request assistance from the Secretary or 23
Assistant Secretary; or 24
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(3) to implement any measure or recommenda-1
tion suggested by the Secretary or Assistant Sec-2
retary in response to a request by the private entity. 3
(i) P
ROTECTION OF VOLUNTARILYSHAREDCRIT-4
ICALSUPPLYCHAININFORMATION.— 5
(1) P
ROTECTION.— 6
(A) I
N GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 7
other provision of law, critical supply chain in-8
formation (including the identity of the submit-9
ting person or entity) that is voluntarily sub-10
mitted under this section to the Department of 11
Commerce for use by the Department for pur-12
poses of this section, when accompanied by an 13
express statement described in subparagraph 14
(B)— 15
(i) shall be exempt from disclosure 16
under section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United 17
States Code (commonly referred to as the 18
‘‘Freedom of Information Act’’); 19
(ii) is not subject to any agency rules 20
or judicial doctrine regarding ex parte 21
communications with a decision-making of-22
ficial; 23
(iii) may not, without the written con-24
sent of the person or entity submitting 25
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such information, be used directly by the 1
Department of Commerce, any other Fed-2
eral, State, or local authority, or any third 3
party, in any civil action arising under 4
Federal or State law if such information is 5
submitted in good faith; 6
(iv) may not, without the written con-7
sent of the person or entity submitting 8
such information, be used or disclosed by 9
any officer or employee of the United 10
States for purposes other than the pur-11
poses of this section, except— 12
(I) in furtherance of an investiga-13
tion or the prosecution of a criminal 14
act; or 15
(II) when disclosure of the infor-16
mation would be— 17
(aa) to either House of Con-18
gress, or to the extent of matter 19
within its jurisdiction, any com-20
mittee or subcommittee thereof, 21
any joint committee thereof, or 22
any subcommittee of any such 23
joint committee; or 24
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(bb) to the Comptroller Gen-1
eral of the United States, or any 2
authorized representative of the 3
Comptroller General, in the 4
course of the performance of the 5
duties of the Government Ac-6
countability Office; 7
(v) may not, if provided to a State or 8
local government or government agency— 9
(I) be made available pursuant to 10
any State or local law requiring dis-11
closure of information or records; 12
(II) otherwise be disclosed or dis-13
tributed to any party by such State or 14
local government or government agen-15
cy without the written consent of the 16
person or entity submitting such in-17
formation; or 18
(III) be used other than for the 19
purpose of carrying out this section, 20
or in furtherance of an investigation 21
or the prosecution of a criminal act; 22
and 23
(vi) does not constitute a waiver of 24
any applicable privilege or protection pro-25
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vided under law, such as trade secret pro-1
tection. 2
(B) E
XPRESS STATEMENT .—The express 3
statement described in this subparagraph, with 4
respect to information or records, is— 5
(i) in the case of written information 6
or records, a written marking on the infor-7
mation or records substantially similar to 8
the following: ‘‘This information is volun-9
tarily submitted to the Federal Govern-10
ment in expectation of protection from dis-11
closure as provided by the provisions of the 12
Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 13
2024.’’; or 14
(ii) in the case of oral information, a 15
written statement similar to the statement 16
described in clause (i) submitted within a 17
reasonable period following the oral com-18
munication. 19
(2) L
IMITATION.—No communication of critical 20
supply chain information to the Department of Com-21
merce made pursuant to this section may be consid-22
ered to be an action subject to the requirements of 23
chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code. 24
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(3) INDEPENDENTLY OBTAINED INFORMA -1
TION.—Nothing in this subsection may be construed 2
to limit or otherwise affect the ability of a State, 3
local, or Federal Government entity, agency, or au-4
thority, or any third party, under applicable law to 5
obtain critical supply chain information in a manner 6
not covered by paragraph (1), including any infor-7
mation lawfully and properly disclosed generally or 8
broadly to the public and to use such information in 9
any manner permitted by law. For purposes of this 10
subsection, a permissible use of independently ob-11
tained information includes the disclosure of such in-12
formation under section 2302(b)(8) of title 5, 13
United States Code. 14
(4) T
REATMENT OF VOLUNTARY SUBMITTAL OF 15
INFORMATION.—The voluntary submittal to the De-16
partment of Commerce of information or records 17
that are protected from disclosure by this section 18
may not be construed to constitute compliance with 19
any requirement to submit such information to an 20
agency under any other provision of law. 21
(5) I
NAPPLICABILITY TO SEMICONDUCTOR IN -22
CENTIVE PROGRAM.—This subsection does not apply 23
to the voluntary submission of critical supply chain 24
information in an application for Federal financial 25
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assistance under section 9902 of the William M. 1
(Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 2
Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283). 3
SEC. 4. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE CAPABILITY ASSESS-4
MENT. 5
(a) R
EPORTREQUIRED.—The Secretary shall 6
produce a report— 7
(1) identifying the duties, responsibilities, re-8
sources, programs, and expertise within the offices 9
and bureaus of the Department of Commerce rel-10
evant to critical supply chain resilience and manu-11
facturing innovation; 12
(2) identifying and assessing the purpose, legal 13
authority, effectiveness, efficiency, and limitations of 14
each office or bureau identified under paragraph (1); 15
and 16
(3) providing recommendations to enhance the 17
activities related to critical supply chain resilience 18
and manufacturing innovation of the Department of 19
Commerce, including— 20
(A) improving the effectiveness, efficiency, 21
and impact of the offices and bureaus identified 22
under paragraph (1); 23
(B) coordinating across offices and bu-24
reaus identified under paragraph (1); and 25
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(C) consulting with agencies implementing 1
similar activities related to critical supply chain 2
resilience and manufacturing innovation. 3
(b) S
UBMISSION OFREPORT.—Not later than 2 years 4
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 5
shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress the 6
report required by subsection (a), along with a strategy 7
to implement, as appropriate and as determined by the 8
Secretary, the recommendations contained in the report. 9
SEC. 5. NO ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 10
No additional funds are authorized to be appro-11
priated to carry out this Act. 12
SEC. 6. SUNSET. 13
This Act and all requirements, responsibilities, and 14
obligations under this Act shall terminate on the date that 15
is 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act. 16
SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS. 17
In this Act: 18
(1) A
GENCY.—The term ‘‘agency’’ has the 19
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 5, 20
United States Code. 21
(2) A
LLY OR KEY INTERNATIONAL PARTNER 22
NATION.—The term ‘‘ally or key international part-23
ner nation’’— 24
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(A) means a country that is critical to ad-1
dressing critical supply chain weaknesses and 2
vulnerabilities; and 3
(B) does not include— 4
(i) a country that poses a significant 5
risk to the national security or economic 6
security of the United States; or 7
(ii) a country that is described in sec-8
tion 503(b) of the RANSOMWARE Act 9
(title V of division BB of the Consolidated 10
Appropriations Act, 2023; Public Law 11
117–328; 136 Stat. 5564). 12
(3) A
SSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-13
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of 14
Commerce assigned by the Secretary to direct the 15
office of Industry and Analysis. 16
(4) C
OVERED NONGOVERNMENTAL REPRESENT -17
ATIVE.—The term ‘‘covered nongovernmental rep-18
resentative’’ means a representative as specified in 19
the second sentence of section 135(b)(1) of the 20
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2155(b)(1)), except 21
that such term does not include a representative of 22
a non-Federal Government. 23
(5) C
RITICAL GOOD.—The term ‘‘critical good’’ 24
means any raw, in process, or manufactured mate-25
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rial (including any mineral, metal, or advanced proc-1
essed material), article, commodity, supply, product, 2
or item for which an absence of supply would have 3
a debilitating impact on— 4
(A) the national security or economic secu-5
rity of the United States; and 6
(B) either— 7
(i) critical infrastructure; or 8
(ii) an emerging technology. 9
(6) C
RITICAL INDUSTRY.—The term ‘‘critical 10
industry’’ means an industry that— 11
(A) is critical for the national security or 12
economic security of the United States; and 13
(B) produces or procures a critical good. 14
(7) C
RITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE .—The term 15
‘‘critical infrastructure’’ has the meaning given that 16
term in section 1016 of the Critical Infrastructures 17
Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c). 18
(8) C
RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN.—The term ‘‘crit-19
ical supply chain’’ means a supply chain for a crit-20
ical good. 21
(9) C
RITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN INFORMATION .— 22
The term ‘‘critical supply chain information’’ means 23
information that is not customarily in the public do-24
main and relates to— 25
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(A) sustaining and adapting a critical sup-1
ply chain during a supply chain shock; 2
(B) critical supply chain risk mitigation 3
and recovery planning with respect to a supply 4
chain shock, including any planned or past as-5
sessment, projection, or estimate of a vulner-6
ability within the critical supply chain, includ-7
ing testing, supplier network assessments, pro-8
duction flexibility, supply chain risk evaluations, 9
supply chain risk management planning, or risk 10
audits; or 11
(C) operational best practices, planning, 12
and supplier partnerships that enable enhanced 13
resilience of a critical supply chain during a 14
supply chain shock, including response, repair, 15
recovery, reconstruction, insurance, or con-16
tinuity. 17
(10) D
OMESTIC ENTERPRISE .—The term ‘‘do-18
mestic enterprise’’ means an enterprise that con-19
ducts business in the United States and procures a 20
critical good. 21
(11) D
OMESTIC MANUFACTURER .—The term 22
‘‘domestic manufacturer’’ means a business that 23
conducts in the United States the research and de-24
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velopment, engineering, or production activities nec-1
essary for manufacturing a critical good. 2
(12) E
MERGING TECHNOLOGY .—The term 3
‘‘emerging technology’’ means a technology that is 4
critical for the national security or economic security 5
of the United States, including the following: 6
(A) Technologies included in the American 7
COMPETE Act (title XV of division FF of the 8
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021; Public 9
Law 116–260; 134 Stat. 3276). 10
(B) The following technologies: 11
(i) Artificial intelligence. 12
(ii) Automated vehicles and unmanned 13
delivery systems. 14
(iii) Blockchain and other distributed 15
ledger, data storage, data management, 16
and cybersecurity technologies. 17
(iv) Quantum computing and quan-18
tum sensing. 19
(v) Additive manufacturing. 20
(vi) Advanced manufacturing and the 21
Internet of Things. 22
(vii) Nano technology. 23
(viii) Robotics. 24
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(ix) Microelectronics, optical fiber ray, 1
and high performance and advanced com-2
puter hardware and software. 3
(x) Semiconductors. 4
(xi) Advanced materials science, in-5
cluding composition 2D, other next genera-6
tion materials, and related manufacturing 7
technologies. 8
(13) I
NSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION .— 9
The term ‘‘institution of higher education’’ has the 10
meaning given that term in section 101 of the High-11
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001). 12
(14) M
ANUFACTURE.—The term ‘‘manufac-13
ture’’— 14
(A) means any activity that is necessary 15
for the development, production, processing, 16
distribution, or delivery of any raw, in process, 17
or manufactured material (including any min-18
eral, metal, and advanced processed material), 19
article, commodity, supply, product, critical 20
good, or item of supply; and 21
(B) does not include software unrelated to 22
the manufacturing process. 23
(15) M
ANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY .—The 24
term ‘‘manufacturing technology’’ means a tech-25
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nology that is necessary for the manufacturing of a 1
critical good. 2
(16) P
RODUCTION EQUIPMENT .—The term 3
‘‘production equipment’’ means any component, sub-4
system, system, equipment, tooling, accessory, part, 5
or assembly necessary for the manufacturing of a 6
critical good. 7
(17) P
ROGRAM.—The term ‘‘program’’ means 8
the critical supply chain resiliency and crisis re-9
sponse program established pursuant to section 10
103(a). 11
(18) R
ELEVANT COMMITTEES OF CONGRESS .— 12
The term ‘‘relevant committees of Congress’’ means 13
the following: 14
(A) The Committee on Commerce, Science, 15
and Transportation of the Senate. 16
(B) The Committee on Energy and Com-17
merce of the House of Representatives. 18
(19) R
ESILIENT CRITICAL SUPPLY CHAIN .—The 19
term ‘‘resilient critical supply chain’’ means a crit-20
ical supply chain that— 21
(A) ensures that the United States can 22
sustain critical industry, including emerging 23
technologies, production, critical supply chains, 24
services, and access to critical goods, production 25
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equipment, and manufacturing technology dur-1
ing a supply chain shock; and 2
(B) has key components of resilience that 3
include— 4
(i) effective private sector risk man-5
agement and mitigation planning to sus-6
tain critical supply chains and supplier 7
networks during a supply chain shock; and 8
(ii) minimized or managed exposure to 9
a supply chain shock. 10
(20) S
ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 11
means the Secretary of Commerce. 12
(21) S
TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of 13
the several States, the District of Columbia, each 14
commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United 15
States, and each federally recognized Indian Tribe. 16
(22) S
UPPLY CHAIN SHOCK.—The term ‘‘supply 17
chain shock’’— 18
(A) means an event causing severe or seri-19
ous disruption to normal operations or capacity 20
in a supply chain; and 21
(B) includes— 22
(i) a natural disaster; 23
(ii) a pandemic; 24
(iii) a biological threat; 25
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(iv) a cyber attack; 1
(v) a geopolitical conflict; 2
(vi) a terrorist or geopolitical attack; 3
(vii) a trade disruption caused by— 4
(I) a country described in para-5
graph (2)(B); or 6
(II) an entity or an individual 7
subject to the jurisdiction of such a 8
country; and 9
(viii) an event for which the President 10
declares a major disaster or an emergency 11
under section 401 or 501, respectively, of 12
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 13
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 14
5170; 42 U.S.C. 5191). 15
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