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Vol. 84

Friday,

No. 96

May 17, 2019

Part IV





The President





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Executive Order 13873--Securing the Information and Communications 
Technology and Services Supply Chain
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                Executive Order 13873 of May 15, 2019

                
Securing the Information and Communications 
                Technology and Services Supply Chain

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the International Emergency Economic 
                Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and 
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

                I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of 
                America, find that foreign adversaries are increasingly 
                creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information 
                and communications technology and services, which store 
                and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information, 
                facilitate the digital economy, and support critical 
                infrastructure and vital emergency services, in order 
                to commit malicious cyber-enabled actions, including 
                economic and industrial espionage against the United 
                States and its people. I further find that the 
                unrestricted acquisition or use in the United States of 
                information and communications technology or services 
                designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by 
                persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the 
                jurisdiction or direction of foreign adversaries 
                augments the ability of foreign adversaries to create 
                and exploit vulnerabilities in information and 
                communications technology or services, with potentially 
                catastrophic effects, and thereby constitutes an 
                unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
                security, foreign policy, and economy of the United 
                States. This threat exists both in the case of 
                individual acquisitions or uses of such technology or 
                services, and when acquisitions or uses of such 
                technologies are considered as a class. Although 
                maintaining an open investment climate in information 
                and communications technology, and in the United States 
                economy more generally, is important for the overall 
                growth and prosperity of the United States, such 
                openness must be balanced by the need to protect our 
                country against critical national security threats. To 
                deal with this threat, additional steps are required to 
                protect the security, integrity, and reliability of 
                information and communications technology and services 
                provided and used in the United States. In light of 
                these findings, I hereby declare a national emergency 
                with respect to this threat.

                Accordingly, it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. Implementation. (a) The following actions 
                are prohibited: any acquisition, importation, transfer, 
                installation, dealing in, or use of any information and 
                communications technology or service (transaction) by 
                any person, or with respect to any property, subject to 
                the jurisdiction of the United States, where the 
                transaction involves any property in which any foreign 
                country or a national thereof has any interest 
                (including through an interest in a contract for the 
                provision of the technology or service), where the 
                transaction was initiated, is pending, or will be 
                completed after the date of this order, and where the 
                Secretary of Commerce (Secretary), in consultation with 
                the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, 
                the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Trade 
                Representative, the Director of National Intelligence, 
                the Administrator of General Services, the Chairman of 
                the Federal Communications Commission, and, as 
                appropriate, the heads of other executive departments 
                and agencies (agencies), has determined that:

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(i) the transaction involves information and communications technology or 
services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied, by persons owned 
by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign 
adversary; and

(ii) the transaction:

  (A) poses an undue risk of sabotage to or subversion of the design, 
integrity, manufacturing, production, distribution, installation, 
operation, or maintenance of information and communications technology or 
services in the United States;

  (B) poses an undue risk of catastrophic effects on the security or 
resiliency of United States critical infrastructure or the digital economy 
of the United States; or

  (C) otherwise poses an unacceptable risk to the national security of the 
United States or the security and safety of United States persons.

                    (b) The Secretary, in consultation with the heads 
                of other agencies as appropriate, may at the 
                Secretary's discretion design or negotiate measures to 
                mitigate concerns identified under section 1(a) of this 
                order. Such measures may serve as a precondition to the 
                approval of a transaction or of a class of transactions 
                that would otherwise be prohibited pursuant to this 
                order.
                    (c) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this 
                section apply except to the extent provided by 
                statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or 
                licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and 
                notwithstanding any contract entered into or any 
                license or permit granted prior to the effective date 
                of this order.

                Sec. 2. Authorities. (a) The Secretary, in consultation 
                with, or upon referral of a particular transaction 
                from, the heads of other agencies as appropriate, is 
                hereby authorized to take such actions, including 
                directing the timing and manner of the cessation of 
                transactions prohibited pursuant to section 1 of this 
                order, adopting appropriate rules and regulations, and 
                employing all other powers granted to the President by 
                IEEPA, as may be necessary to implement this order. All 
                agencies of the United States Government are directed 
                to take all appropriate measures within their authority 
                to carry out the provisions of this order.

                    (b) Rules and regulations issued pursuant to this 
                order may, among other things, determine that 
                particular countries or persons are foreign adversaries 
                for the purposes of this order; identify persons owned 
                by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or 
                direction of foreign adversaries for the purposes of 
                this order; identify particular technologies or 
                countries with respect to which transactions involving 
                information and communications technology or services 
                warrant particular scrutiny under the provisions of 
                this order; establish procedures to license 
                transactions otherwise prohibited pursuant to this 
                order; establish criteria, consistent with section 1 of 
                this order, by which particular technologies or 
                particular participants in the market for information 
                and communications technology or services may be 
                recognized as categorically included in or as 
                categorically excluded from the prohibitions 
                established by this order; and identify a mechanism and 
                relevant factors for the negotiation of agreements to 
                mitigate concerns raised in connection with subsection 
                1(a) of this order. Within 150 days of the date of this 
                order, the Secretary, in consultation with the 
                Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of State, the 
                Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Trade 
                Representative, the Director of National Intelligence, 
                the Administrator of General Services, the Chairman of 
                the Federal Communications Commission and, as 
                appropriate, the heads of other agencies, shall publish 
                rules or regulations implementing the authorities 
                delegated to the Secretary by this order.
                    (c) The Secretary may, consistent with applicable 
                law, redelegate any of the authorities conferred on the 
                Secretary pursuant to this section within the 
                Department of Commerce.

                Sec. 3. Definitions. For purposes of this order:

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                    (a) the term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, group, 
                subgroup, or other organization;
                    (b) the term ``foreign adversary'' means any 
                foreign government or foreign non-government person 
                engaged in a long-term pattern or serious instances of 
                conduct significantly adverse to the national security 
                of the United States or security and safety of United 
                States persons;
                    (c) the term ``information and communications 
                technology or services'' means any hardware, software, 
                or other product or service primarily intended to 
                fulfill or enable the function of information or data 
                processing, storage, retrieval, or communication by 
                electronic means, including transmission, storage, and 
                display;
                    (d) the term ``person'' means an individual or 
                entity; and
                    (e) the term ``United States person'' means any 
                United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity 
                organized under the laws of the United States or any 
                jurisdiction within the United States (including 
                foreign branches), or any person in the United States.

                Sec. 4. Recurring and Final Reports to the Congress. 
                The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of 
                State, is hereby authorized to submit recurring and 
                final reports to the Congress on the national emergency 
                declared in this order, consistent with section 401(c) 
                of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 1641(c)) and section 204(c) of 
                IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1703(c)).

                Sec. 5. Assessments and Reports. (a) The Director of 
                National Intelligence shall continue to assess threats 
                to the United States and its people from information 
                and communications technology or services designed, 
                developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned 
                by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or 
                direction of a foreign adversary. The Director of 
                National Intelligence shall produce periodic written 
                assessments of these threats in consultation with the 
                heads of relevant agencies, and shall provide these 
                assessments to the President, the Secretary for the 
                Secretary's use in connection with his responsibilities 
                pursuant to this order, and the heads of other agencies 
                as appropriate. An initial assessment shall be 
                completed within 40 days of the date of this order, and 
                further assessments shall be completed at least 
                annually, and shall include analysis of:

(i) threats enabled by information and communications technologies or 
services designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons owned 
by, controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction or direction of a foreign 
adversary; and

(ii) threats to the United States Government, United States critical 
infrastructure, and United States entities from information and 
communications technologies or services designed, developed, manufactured, 
or supplied by persons owned by, controlled by, or subject to the influence 
of a foreign adversary.

                    (b) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
                continue to assess and identify entities, hardware, 
                software, and services that present vulnerabilities in 
                the United States and that pose the greatest potential 
                consequences to the national security of the United 
                States. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
                coordination with sector-specific agencies and 
                coordinating councils as appropriate, shall produce a 
                written assessment within 80 days of the date of this 
                order, and annually thereafter. This assessment shall 
                include an evaluation of hardware, software, or 
                services that are relied upon by multiple information 
                and communications technology or service providers, 
                including the communication services relied upon by 
                critical infrastructure entities identified pursuant to 
                section 9 of Executive Order 13636 of February 12, 2013 
                (Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity).
                    (c) Within 1 year of the date of this order, and 
                annually thereafter, the Secretary, in consultation as 
                appropriate with the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
                Secretary of Homeland Security, Secretary of State, the 
                Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the United 
                States Trade Representative, the

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                Director of National Intelligence, and the Chairman of 
                the Federal Communications Commission, shall assess and 
                report to the President whether the actions taken by 
                the Secretary pursuant to this order are sufficient and 
                continue to be necessary to mitigate the risks 
                identified in, and pursuant to, this order.

                Sec. 6. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    May 15, 2019.

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