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Act on export controls without waiting for allies

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 21, p. 671. Written by Thomas F. Gilman.

Act on export controls without waiting for allies

The document says “needs to”Who acts: Commerce, BISHow: regulationp. 671 in the PDF
What the document says

“BIS needs to move unilaterally while it works with allies to implement complementary export control policies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 671

The chapter says waiting to act until allies are ready to move in lockstep is not an option while national security is at risk. It asks for stronger rules against technology transfer to adversaries, for export controls to be used to prevent theft of personal data, and to encourage companies to shift production out of China.

What the document actually says

“BIS needs to move unilaterally while it works with allies to implement complementary export control policies.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 671
That sentence, in plain words

Act alone if needed. Keep working with allies at the same time.

What this is about

Some tech cannot be sold to certain lands. Allies often act as one. The book says America should not wait for them.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. That act amends the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 to require an annual report to two congressional committees on license applications and end use checks involving listed entities in arms embargoed countries, with most of the report exempt from public disclosure. It is a reporting duty, not a new control, and it says nothing about acting ahead of allies. The other near candidate, rule-2025-23998, is a State Department arms trade exemption built jointly with Australia and the United Kingdom, which is coordinated rather than unilateral action, and it is not administered by the Bureau of Industry and Security. No rule from that bureau appears among the rules indexed here. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 671.
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    “Act on export controls without waiting for allies,” Project 2025, chapter 21, p. 671. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch21-export-controls-move-first/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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