Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (MATCH) Act

This bill directs the Departments of Commerce and State to identify, within 60 days and every year after, chipmaking equipment that countries of concern such as China cannot produce in comparable quality and volume. It also directs them to identify chip factories tied to those countries, and to report the list to Congress. Within 150 days, Commerce must issue rules requiring licenses, with a policy of denial, to export or service this equipment in countries of concern and at listed facilities. The agencies must also push allied countries that make such equipment to adopt matching controls. If diplomacy fails for an allied country, Commerce must extend U.S. controls to equipment and items exported from that country, with a possible one-time 90-day delay and the option to lift controls if the ally adopts its own.

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Sponsors

• Pete Ricketts Republican sponsor
• 11 cosponsors