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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4683 
To prohibit support for the remote use or cloud use of integrated circuits 
listed under Export Control Classification Number 3A090 and 4A090 
of the Export Administration Regulations by entities located in the 
People’s Republic of China or Macau. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 17, 2023 
Mr. JACKSON of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. LAWLER, Ms. CROCKETT, 
and Mr. MCCORMICK) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To prohibit support for the remote use or cloud use of 
integrated circuits listed under Export Control Classifica-
tion Number 3A090 and 4A090 of the Export Adminis-
tration Regulations by entities located in the People’s 
Republic of China or Macau. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Closing Loopholes for 
the Overseas Use and Development of Artificial Intel-
ligence Act’’ or the ‘‘CLOUD AI Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The People’s Republic of China, the Rus-
sian Federation, and other adversarial countries 
have taken actions to undermine global stability as 
well as the United States national security and for-
eign policy objectives. 
(2) China has used commercially available civil-
ian technology to modernize its military forces in a 
policy known as military-civil fusion. 
(3) As part of its policy of military-civil fusion, 
China is working to modernize its nuclear, chemical, 
missile, and biological weapons capacity. 
(4) The United States and its allies have long 
regulated items and activities that support the devel-
opment, production, or use of otherwise commercial 
items if those items are aid in the development, pro-
duction, or use of nuclear, chemical, missile, or bio-
logical weapons. 
(5) Artificial intelligence tools could be used to 
support the development, production, or use of nu-
clear, chemical, missile, or biological weapons or en-
hance the destructive capabilities of those weapons. 
(6) Advanced semiconductors and supercom-
puter components such as graphics processing units 
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States subsidiaries from providing support for the remote 
use or cloud use of any integrated circuit listed under Ex-
port Control Classification Number 3A090 and 4A090 of 
the Export Administration Regulations by an entity lo-
cated in the People’s Republic of China or Macau. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of Commerce 
shall issue such regulations as may be necessary to carry 
out this section. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Export Administration Regula-
tions’’ means the regulations set forth in subchapter 
C of chapter VII of title 15, Code of Federal Regu-
lations; 
(2) the term ‘‘support’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 744.6 of title 15, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations; 
(3) the term ‘‘United States person’’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘‘U.S. Person’’ in section 
772.1 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations; and 
(4) the term ‘‘United States subsidiary’’ has 
the meaning given the term ‘‘U.S. Subsidiary’’ in 
section 772.1 of title 15, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, notwithstanding the limitation applied with re-
spect to encryption items in that definition. 
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