HR6058-119

What This Bill Does

The STRIDE Act makes semiconductor technology protection a stated U.S. policy priority and directs diplomatic coordination with countries that have major semiconductor research, design, manufacturing, materials, equipment, subsystem, or component capabilities. The bill frames the Chinese Communist Party's semiconductor strategy as a national-security, human-rights, export-control, military-civil-fusion, espionage, and predatory-investment risk.

The Secretary of State must work with capable foreign governments to coordinate expanded protection of critical semiconductor technologies from the Chinese Communist Party and other foreign adversaries. The coordination goals include aligned export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment such as lithography, deposition, etching, bonding, resist processing, chemical mechanical planarization, cleaning, handling, assembly, packaging, testing, inspection systems, and critical subcomponents. The bill also targets semiconductor design tools, intellectual-property transfers, servicing, technical assistance, dual-use materials such as photoresists, specialty gases, and advanced substrates, joint enforcement mechanisms, end-user verification, supply-chain threat information sharing, and trusted supplier networks.

If a partner country is not implementing sufficient security measures, the Secretary of State must explain the deficiencies, ask Commerce to convene the Export Advisory Review Board within 21 days to produce an action plan, notify Congress within 30 days, and provide recommendations on Foreign Direct Product Rule restrictions, Entity List additions, and anti-backfilling steps. The State Department must report every 90 days on diplomatic engagement, coordination progress, inadequate-cooperation determinations, and effectiveness. Reports are unclassified with an optional classified annex.

Who Benefits and How

State Department semiconductor diplomacy staff benefit from a clear statutory mandate for multilateral coordination and recurring reports. BIS export-control officials benefit from structured State Department recommendations on Foreign Direct Product Rule restrictions and Entity List candidates. Trusted semiconductor suppliers benefit if allied coordination creates safer supplier networks for components and manufacturing services. U.S. semiconductor equipment companies benefit from better-aligned allied controls that reduce foreign backfilling by competitors in noncooperating countries. Congressional foreign affairs and banking committees benefit from 90-day reports on partner-country cooperation and supply-chain risks.

Who Bears the Burden and How

State Department regional and economic-security bureaus must conduct diplomatic engagement, assess cooperation, explain deficiencies, notify Congress, and file quarterly reports. Commerce Department export-control staff must convene and support Export Advisory Review Board action plans when State identifies inadequate cooperation. Semiconductor equipment exporters must comply with more aligned controls on tools, subcomponents, servicing, and technical assistance. Semiconductor design software companies face tighter limits on intellectual-property transfers to countries of concern. Noncooperating foreign governments face pressure, deficiency findings, and possible Foreign Direct Product Rule or Entity List consequences for their semiconductor sectors.

Key Provisions

• Directs State Department coordination with semiconductor-capable foreign governments to protect critical semiconductor technology from the Chinese Communist Party and other adversaries.
• Requires coordination goals covering manufacturing equipment, design tools, intellectual property, servicing, technical assistance, dual-use materials, enforcement, end-user verification, and trusted supplier networks.
• Requires State, with Commerce consultation, to assess whether partner countries are implementing sufficient semiconductor security measures.
• Requires an Export Advisory Review Board action-plan request within 21 days when State finds inadequate cooperation.
• Requires congressional notification within 30 days and recurring updates on inadequate-cooperation determinations.
• Requires State to recommend Foreign Direct Product Rule restrictions, Entity List expansions, and anti-backfilling steps for noncooperating countries.
• Requires 90-day reports to congressional committees, with unclassified reporting and optional classified annexes.