Sense of Congress

It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the global semiconductor technology supply chain is critical to United States and allied national security, economic competitiveness, and technological leadership; (2) the Chinese Communist Party is pursuing strategies to dominate the semiconductor technology industry to assist in its military modernization efforts and human rights abuses through nonmarket practices, export control violations and avoidance, economic espionage, military-civil fusion, and predatory investment; (3) the integrity of the global semiconductor technology supply chain requires coordinated action with allied and partner countries to prevent technological capture by the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries; (4) unilateral export controls for protecting critical semiconductor technologies can be amplified with multilateral coordination; and (5) fully utilizing certain unilateral United States export control authorities, including the Foreign Direct Product Rule, has proven effective at preventing circumvention or avoidance of United States export controls through third-country production.