Presidential Documents
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Federal Register
Vol. 84, No. 96
Friday, May 17, 2019
Title 3—
The President
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 Emer-
gencies 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 eco-
nomic 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, devel-
oped, 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 informa-
tion and communications technology or services, with potentially cata-
strophic 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 tech-
nologies 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 infor-
mation and communications technology or service (transaction) by any per-
son, 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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