MATCH Act

This bill directs the Commerce and State Departments to identify, within 60 days and every year after, chipmaking equipment and overseas chip factories in countries such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba that should face export limits. The agencies must press allied countries that make this equipment to require licenses, with a policy of denial, for selling or servicing it in those countries. If allies have not adopted matching controls within 150 days, the U.S. must issue rules extending its controls to equipment shipped from those allied countries and requiring licenses for servicing equipment at covered factories. The deadline can be extended once by up to 90 days for national security reasons, and the law would expire after 5 years.

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Sponsors

• Michael Baumgartner Republican sponsor
• 31 cosponsors