G/TBT/N/USA/1771/Add.1  
 
7 February 2023  
(23-0867) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  7 February 2023, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Title:  Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through 
the Equipment Authorization Program and the Competitive Bidding Program  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[X] Notified measure published - date: 6 February 2023  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 6 February 2023  
[X] Text of final measure available from1:  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-02-06/html/2022 -28263.htm  
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR -2023-02-06/pdf/2022 -28263.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/USA/final_measure/23_0968_00_
e.pdf 
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[ ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
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[ ] Other:  
 
Description:  TITLE: Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply 
Chain Through the Equipment Authorization Program  
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission  
ACTION: Final rule  
SUMMARY: In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) amends its 
rules related to equipment authorization to further secure our communicati ons networks and supply 
chain from equipment that poses an unacceptable risk to national security of the United States or 
the security and safety of United States persons. The Commission implements revisions to the 
 
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  equipment authorization program to prohib it authorization of equipment that has been identified on 
the Commission's Covered List --published pursuant the Secure and Trusted Communications 
Networks Act of 2019 --as posing an unacceptable risk to national security of the United States or 
the security  or safety of United States persons, and the Commission prohibits the marketing and 
importation of such equipment in the United States. The Commission also addresses what constitutes 
"covered" equipment for purposes of implementing the equipment authorizat ion prohibition that the 
Commission is implementing. The actions being taken comply with Congress's directive in the Secure 
Equipment Act of 2021  to prohibit authorization of  "covered" equipment on the Covered List within 
one year of that Act's enactment and to lay the foundation to prohibit the authorization of any 
additional "covered" equipment that may be added to the Covered List based on a determination 
that such equipmen t poses an unacceptable risk to national security.  
DATES: Effective 6 February 2023.  
FCC Amends Equipment Authorization Program:  
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc -amends -equipment -authorization -program  
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