SAFE Chips Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill tightens export controls on advanced integrated circuits by requiring and denying licenses for covered transfers to foreign adversaries and adversary-linked entities.
Who Benefits and How
United States national-security interests could benefit from stricter limits on advanced-chip transfers to foreign adversary countries and adversary-linked firms.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Advanced-chip exporters would face stricter sales restrictions, and Commerce Department officials would need to administer the new controls, technical updates, and congressional briefings.
Key Provisions
- Requires a license for certain exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of advanced integrated circuits to foreign adversary destinations or adversary-linked entities and requires denial of those license applications.
- Defines advanced integrated circuits, exempts products not designed or marketed for data centers, and includes Hong Kong and Macau within the foreign-adversary definition.
- Allows later technical-parameter updates subject to End-User Review Committee approval and requires advance congressional briefing before those updates are published.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill tightens export controls on advanced integrated circuits by requiring and denying licenses for covered transfers to foreign adversaries and adversary-linked entities.
Key Policy Areas
Technology, Trade, National Security
Primary Purpose
This bill tightens export controls on advanced integrated circuits by requiring and denying licenses for covered transfers to foreign adversaries and adversary-linked entities.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- United States national-security interests seeking tighter controls on advanced-chip transfers to foreign adversaries
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Advanced-chip exporters and Commerce officials subject to stricter licensing, denial, and update procedures
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Ricketts (for himself, Mr. Coons, Mr. Cotton, Mrs. Shaheen, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Foreign adversary countries and adversary-linked entities denied access to covered advanced chips, United States exporters of advanced integrated circuits facing tighter restrictions on foreign sales and transfers
Commerce Department officials administering license denials, definition updates, and congressional briefings
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Commerce
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