Title 50 — War and National DefenseRelease 119-83

§4584 Multilateral Engagement and Coordination

Title 50 › Chapter 55— DEFENSE PRODUCTION › Subchapter IV— PROHIBITION AND NOTIFICATION ON INVESTMENTS RELATING TO COVERED NATIONAL SECURITY TRANSACTIONS › § 4584

Last updated Apr 18, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must work with the Secretaries of State and Commerce and other federal agencies to talk with allied and partner countries. They must promote and align rules and procedures so those countries can follow the law’s bans and notification rules. After allies adopt those rules, the United States should help set up ways to share information and trends and encourage partners to create their own systems to stop a country of concern from developing banned technologies. Within 180 days after the implementing regulations, the Secretary must make a plan to help allies build similar bans and notification systems and consider offering technical help. Within one year after the regulations, and then once a year for four years, the Secretary must report to these congressional committees: Senate Foreign Relations; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; House Foreign Affairs; and House Financial Services. The report must explain the plan, list target partner countries, show progress and results, and describe any obstacles.

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Title 50, §4584

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(a)The Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, should—

(1)conduct bilateral and multilateral engagement with the governments of countries that are allies and partners of the United States to promote and increase coordination of protocols and procedures to facilitate the effective implementation of and appropriate compliance with the prohibitions and notification requirement pursuant to this subchapter;

(2)upon adoption of protocols and procedures described in paragraph (1), work with those governments to establish mechanisms for sharing information, including trends, with respect to such activities; and

(3)work with and encourage the governments of countries that are allies and partners of the United States to develop similar mechanisms of their own, for the exclusive purpose of preventing the development of prohibited technologies by a country of concern.

(b)Not later than 180 days after the date of the regulations implementing enactment of this subchapter, the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the heads of other relevant Federal agencies, should—

(1)develop a strategy to work with the governments of countries that are allies and partners of the United States to develop mechanisms that are comparable to the prohibitions and notification requirements pursuant to this subchapter, for the exclusive purpose of preventing the development of prohibited technologies by a country of concern; and

(2)assess opportunities to provide technical assistance to those countries with respect to the development of those mechanisms.

(c)Not later than one year after the date of the regulations implementing enactment of this subchapter, and annually thereafter for four years, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report, subject to the appropriate confidentiality and classification requirements, that includes—

(1)a discussion of any strategy developed pursuant to subsection (b)(1), including key tools and objectives for the development of comparable mechanisms by the governments of allies and partners of the United States;

(2)a list of partner and allied countries to target for cooperation in developing their own prohibitions;

(3)the status of the strategy’s implementation and outcomes; and

(4)a description of impediments to the establishment of comparable mechanisms by governments of allies and partners of the United States.

(d)In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(1)the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and

(2)the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Financial Services of the House of Representatives.

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50 U.S.C. § 4584

Title 50 — War and National Defense

Last Updated

Apr 18, 2026

Release point: 119-83