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Executive Order 14017 of February 24, 2021 

America’s Supply Chains 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: 

Section 1. Policy. The United States needs resilient, diverse, and secure 

supply chains to ensure our economic prosperity and national security. 

Pandemics and other biological threats, cyber-attacks, climate shocks and 

extreme weather events, terrorist attacks, geopolitical and economic competition, and other conditions can reduce critical manufacturing capacity and 

the availability and integrity of critical goods, products, and services. Resilient American supply chains will revitalize and rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity, maintain America’s competitive edge in research and development, and create well-paying jobs. They will also support small businesses, 

promote prosperity, advance the fight against climate change, and encourage 

economic growth in communities of color and economically distressed areas. 

More resilient supply chains are secure and diverse—facilitating greater 

domestic production, a range of supply, built-in redundancies, adequate 

stockpiles, safe and secure digital networks, and a world-class American 

manufacturing base and workforce. Moreover, close cooperation on resilient 

supply chains with allies and partners who share our values will foster 

collective economic and national security and strengthen the capacity to 

respond to international disasters and emergencies. 

Therefore, it is the policy of my Administration to strengthen the resilience 

of America’s supply chains. 

Sec. 2. Coordination. The Assistant to the President for National Security 

Affairs (APNSA) and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy 

(APEP) shall coordinate the executive branch actions necessary to implement 

this order through the interagency process identified in National Security 

Memorandum 2 of February 4, 2021 (Renewing the National Security Council 

System). In implementing this order, the heads of agencies should, as appropriate, consult outside stakeholders—such as those in industry, academia, 

non-governmental organizations, communities, labor unions, and State, local, 

and Tribal governments—in order to fulfill the policy identified in section 

1 of this order. 

Sec. 3. 100-Day Supply Chain Review. (a) To advance the policy described 

in section 1 of this order, the APNSA and the APEP, in coordination with 

the heads of appropriate agencies, as defined in section 6(a) of this order, 

shall complete a review of supply chain risks, as outlined in subsection 

(b) of this section, within 100 days of the date of this order. 

(b) Within 100 days of the date of this order, the specified heads of 

agencies shall submit the following reports to the President, through the 

APNSA and the APEP: 

(i) The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a report identifying risks in the semiconductor 

manufacturing and advanced packaging supply chains and policy recommendations to address these risks. The report shall include the items 

described in section 4(c) of this order. 

(ii) The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the heads of appropriate 

agencies, shall submit a report identifying risks in the supply chain for 

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high-capacity batteries, including electric-vehicle batteries, and policy recommendations to address these risks. The report shall include the items 

described in section 4(c) of this order. 

(iii) The Secretary of Defense (as the National Defense Stockpile Manager), 

in consultation with the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a 

report identifying risks in the supply chain for critical minerals and other 

identified strategic materials, including rare earth elements (as determined 

by the Secretary of Defense), and policy recommendations to address 

these risks. The report shall also describe and update work done pursuant 

to Executive Order 13953 of September 30, 2020 (Addressing the Threat 

to the Domestic Supply Chain From Reliance on Critical Minerals From 

Foreign Adversaries and Supporting the Domestic Mining and Processing 

Industries). The report shall include the items described in section 4(c) 

of this order. 

(iv) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with 

the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a report identifying risks 

in the supply chain for pharmaceuticals and active pharmaceutical ingredients and policy recommendations to address these risks. The report shall 

complement the ongoing work to secure the supply chains of critical 

items needed to combat the COVID–19 pandemic, including personal protective equipment, conducted pursuant to Executive Order 14001 of January 

21, 2021 (A Sustainable Public Health Supply Chain). The report shall 

include the items described in section 4(c) of this order. 

(c) The APNSA and the APEP shall review the reports required under 

subsection (b) of this section and shall submit the reports to the President 

in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. 

(d) The APNSA and the APEP shall include a cover memorandum to 

the set of reports submitted pursuant to this section, summarizing the reports’ 

findings and making any additional overall recommendations for addressing 

the risks to America’s supply chains, including the supply chains for the 

products identified in subsection (b) of this section. 

Sec. 4. Sectoral Supply Chain Assessments. (a) Within 1 year of the date 

of this order, the specified heads of agencies shall submit the following 

reports to the President, through the APNSA and the APEP: 

(i) The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the heads of appropriate 

agencies, shall submit a report on supply chains for the defense industrial 

base that updates the report provided pursuant to Executive Order 13806 

of July 21, 2017 (Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and 

Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States), 

and builds on the Annual Industrial Capabilities Report mandated by 

the Congress pursuant to section 2504 of title 10, United States Code. 

The report shall identify areas where civilian supply chains are dependent 

upon competitor nations, as determined by the Secretary of Defense. 

(ii) The Secretary of Health and Human Services, in consultation with 

the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a report on supply chains 

for the public health and biological preparedness industrial base (as determined by the Secretary of Health and Human Services). The report shall 

complement the work conducted pursuant to section 4 of Executive Order 

14001. 

(iii) The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 

in consultation with the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a 

report on supply chains for critical sectors and subsectors of the information and communications technology (ICT) industrial base (as determined 

by the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Homeland Security), 

including the industrial base for the development of ICT software, data, 

and associated services. 

(iv) The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the heads of appropriate 

agencies, shall submit a report on supply chains for the energy sector 

industrial base (as determined by the Secretary of Energy). 

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(v) The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the heads of 

appropriate agencies, shall submit a report on supply chains for the transportation industrial base (as determined by the Secretary of Transportation). 

(vi) The Secretary of Agriculture, in consultation with the heads of appropriate agencies, shall submit a report on supply chains for the production 

of agricultural commodities and food products. 

(b) The APNSA and the APEP shall, as appropriate and in consultation 

with the heads of appropriate agencies, recommend adjustments to the scope 

for each industrial base assessment, including digital networks, services, 

assets, and data (‘‘digital products’’), goods, services, and materials that 

are relevant within more than one defined industrial base, and add new 

assessments, as appropriate, for goods and materials not included in the 

above industrial base assessments. 

(c) Each report submitted under subsection (a) of this section shall include 

a review of: 

(i) the critical goods and materials, as defined in section 6(b) of this 

order, underlying the supply chain in question; 

(ii) other essential goods and materials, as defined in section 6(d) of 

this order, underlying the supply chain in question, including digital 

products; 

(iii) the manufacturing or other capabilities necessary to produce the materials identified in subsections (c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this section, including 

emerging capabilities; 

(iv) the defense, intelligence, cyber, homeland security, health, climate, 

environmental, natural, market, economic, geopolitical, human-rights or 

forced-labor risks or other contingencies that may disrupt, strain, compromise, or eliminate the supply chain—including risks posed by supply 

chains’ reliance on digital products that may be vulnerable to failures 

or exploitation, and risks resulting from the elimination of, or failure 

to develop domestically, the capabilities identified in subsection (c)(iii) 

of this section—and that are sufficiently likely to arise so as to require 

reasonable preparation for their occurrence; 

(v) the resilience and capacity of American manufacturing supply chains 

and the industrial and agricultural base—whether civilian or defense— 

of the United States to support national and economic security, emergency 

preparedness, and the policy identified in section 1 of this order, in 

the event any of the contingencies identified in subsection (c)(iv) of this 

section occurs, including an assessment of: 

(A) the manufacturing or other needed capacities of the United States, 

including the ability to modernize to meet future needs; 

(B) gaps in domestic manufacturing capabilities, including nonexistent, 

extinct, threatened, or single-point-of-failure capabilities; 

(C) supply chains with a single point of failure, single or dual suppliers, 

or limited resilience, especially for subcontractors, as defined by section 

44.101 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations (Federal Acquisition Regulation); 

(D) the location of key manufacturing and production assets, with any 

significant risks identified in subsection (c)(iv) of this section posed by 

the assets’ physical location; 

(E) exclusive or dominant supply of critical goods and materials and 

other essential goods and materials, as identified in subsections (c)(i) 

and (c)(ii) of this section, by or through nations that are, or are likely 

to become, unfriendly or unstable; 

(F) the availability of substitutes or alternative sources for critical goods 

and materials and other essential goods and materials, as identified in 

subsections (c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this section; 

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(G) current domestic education and manufacturing workforce skills for 

the relevant sector and identified gaps, opportunities, and potential best 

practices in meeting the future workforce needs for the relevant sector; 

(H) the need for research and development capacity to sustain leadership 

in the development of critical goods and materials and other essential 

goods and materials, as identified in subsections (c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this 

section; 

(I) the role of transportation systems in supporting existing supply chains 

and risks associated with those transportation systems; and 

(J) the risks posed by climate change to the availability, production, 

or transportation of critical goods and materials and other essential goods 

and materials, as identified in subsections (c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this section. 

(vi) allied and partner actions, including whether United States allies 

and partners have also identified and prioritized the critical goods and 

materials and other essential goods and materials identified in subsections 

(c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this section, and possible avenues for international 

engagement. In assessing these allied and partner actions, the heads of 

agencies shall consult with the Secretary of State; 

(vii) the primary causes of risks for any aspect of the relevant industrial 

base and supply chains assessed as vulnerable pursuant to subsection 

(c)(v) of this section; 

(viii) a prioritization of the critical goods and materials and other essential 

goods and materials, including digital products, identified in subsections 

(c)(i) and (c)(ii) of this section for the purpose of identifying options 

and policy recommendations. The prioritization shall be based on statutory 

or regulatory requirements; importance to national security, emergency 

preparedness, and the policy set forth in section 1 of this order; and 

the review conducted pursuant to subsection (c)(v) of this section; 

(ix) specific policy recommendations for ensuring a resilient supply chain 

for the sector. Such recommendations may include sustainably reshoring 

supply chains and developing domestic supplies, cooperating with allies 

and partners to identify alternative supply chains, building redundancy 

into domestic supply chains, ensuring and enlarging stockpiles, developing 

workforce capabilities, enhancing access to financing, expanding research 

and development to broaden supply chains, addressing risks due to 

vulnerabilities in digital products relied on by supply chains, addressing 

risks posed by climate change, and any other recommendations; 

(x) any executive, legislative, regulatory, and policy changes and any 

other actions to strengthen the capabilities identified in subsection (c)(iii) 

of this section, and to prevent, avoid, or prepare for any of the contingencies 

identified in subsection (c)(iv) of this section; and 

(xi) proposals for improving the Government-wide effort to strengthen 

supply chains, including proposals for coordinating actions required under 

this order with ongoing efforts that could be considered duplicative of 

the work of this order or with existing Government mechanisms that 

could be used to implement this order in a more effective manner. 

(d) The APNSA and the APEP shall review the reports required under 

subsection (a) of this section and shall submit the reports to the President 

in an unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. 

Sec. 5. General Review and Recommendations. As soon as practicable following the submission of the reports required under section 4 of this order, 

the APNSA and the APEP, in coordination with the heads of appropriate 

agencies, shall provide to the President one or more reports reviewing the 

actions taken over the previous year and making recommendations concerning: 

(a) steps to strengthen the resilience of America’s supply chains; 

(b) reforms needed to make supply chain analyses and actions more effective, including statutory, regulatory, procedural, and institutional design 

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changes. The report shall include recommendations on whether additional 

offices, personnel, resources, statistical data, or authorities are needed; 

(c) establishment of a quadrennial supply chain review, including processes 

and timelines regarding ongoing data gathering and supply chain monitoring; 

(d) diplomatic, economic, security, trade policy, informational, and other 

actions that can successfully engage allies and partners to strengthen supply 

chains jointly or in coordination; 

(e) insulating supply chain analyses and actions from conflicts of interest, 

corruption, or the appearance of impropriety, to ensure integrity and public 

confidence in supply chain analyses; 

(f) reforms to domestic and international trade rules and agreements needed 

to support supply chain resilience, security, diversity, and strength; 

(g) education and workforce reforms needed to strengthen the domestic 

industrial base; 

(h) steps to ensure that the Government’s supply chain policy supports 

small businesses, prevents monopolization, considers climate and other environmental impacts, encourages economic growth in communities of color 

and economically distressed areas, and ensures geographic dispersal of economic activity across all regions of the United States; and 

(i) Federal incentives and any amendments to Federal procurement regulations that may be necessary to attract and retain investments in critical 

goods and materials and other essential goods and materials, as defined 

in sections 6(b) and 6(d) of this order, including any new programs that 

could encourage both domestic and foreign investment in critical goods 

and materials. 

Sec. 6. Definitions. For purposes of this order: 

(a) ‘‘Agency’’ means any authority of the United States that is an ‘‘agency’’ 

under 44 U.S.C. 3502(1), other than those considered to be independent 

regulatory agencies, as defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(5). ‘‘Agency’’ also means 

any component of the Executive Office of the President. 

(b) ‘‘Critical goods and materials’’ means goods and raw materials currently 

defined under statute or regulation as ‘‘critical’’ materials, technologies, or 

infrastructure. 

(c) ‘‘Critical minerals’’ has the meaning given to that term in Executive 

Order 13953 of September 30, 2020 (Addressing the Threat to the Domestic 

Supply Chain From Reliance on Critical Minerals From Foreign Adversaries 

and Supporting the Domestic Mining and Processing Industries). 

(d) ‘‘Other essential goods and materials’’ means goods and materials 

that are essential to national and economic security, emergency preparedness, 

or to advance the policy set forth in section 1 of this order, but not included 

within the definition of ‘‘critical goods and materials.’’ 

(e) ‘‘Supply chain,’’ when used with reference to minerals, includes the 

exploration, mining, concentration, separation, alloying, recycling, and reprocessing of minerals. 

Sec. 7. 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. 

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(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. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

February 24, 2021. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04280 

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