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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6659 
To establish within the Office of the United States Trade Representative 
a Chief Critical Minerals Negotiator, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 11, 2025 
Mr. MOORE of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. MCGUIRE, Mr. BARR, and 
Mr. LAWLER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To establish within the Office of the United States Trade 
Representative a Chief Critical Minerals Negotiator, and 
for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Critical Minerals 
Trade Security Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Critical minerals, including rare earth ele-
ments, are essential for national security and eco-
nomic resilience. 
(2) Processed critical minerals and their deriva-
tive products are key building blocks of the defense 
industrial base of the United States and integral to 
applications such as jet engines, missile guidance 
systems, advanced computing, radar systems, ad-
vanced optics, and secure communications equip-
ment. 
(3) The United States remains heavily depend-
ent on foreign sources of critical minerals which ex-
poses the economy and defense sector to supply 
chain disruptions and economic coercion. 
(4) Foreign producers of critical minerals have 
engaged in price manipulation, overcapacity, and ar-
bitrary export restrictions, using their supply chain 
dominance as a tool for geopolitical and economic le-
verage over the United States. 
SEC. 3. CHIEF CRITICAL MINERALS NEGOTIATOR. 
Section 141 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2171(b)) is amended as follows: 
(1) In subsection (b)(2)— 
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(A) in the first sentence, by inserting ‘‘one 
Chief Critical Minerals Negotiator,’’ after ‘‘one 
Chief Agricultural Negotiator,’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘the Chief Critical Min-
erals Negotiator,’’ after ‘‘the Chief Agricultural 
Negotiator,’’ each place it appears. 
(2) In subsection (c), by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) The principal functions of the Chief Critical 
Minerals Negotiator shall be to conduct trade negotiations 
regarding critical minerals, enforce trade agreements re-
lating to United States critical minerals resources, take 
appropriate action to address the acts, policies, or prac-
tices of trade partners with respect to critical minerals, 
and lead the coordination of the Office’s critical minerals 
policy in consultation with the following individuals: 
‘‘(A) The Secretary of State or his designee. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary of Energy or his designee. 
‘‘(C) The Secretary of the Interior or his des-
ignee. 
‘‘(D) Any other individual the United States 
Trade Representative determines appropriate.’’. 
(3) By adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
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‘‘(i) ANNUAL REPORT
BY CHIEF CRITICAL MIN-
ERALS NEGOTIATOR.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than September 
30, 2026, and annually thereafter, the Chief Critical 
Minerals Negotiator shall submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees, and concurrently publish 
on a publicly available website of the United States 
Trade Representative, a report that— 
‘‘(A) describes in detail the results of a re-
view with respect to the acts, policies, and prac-
tices relating to the trade in critical minerals in 
the preceding fiscal year of countries deter-
mined by such negotiator to— 
‘‘(i) have a significant trade relation-
ship with the United States; or 
‘‘(ii) pose a risk to the supply chains 
of the United States; and 
‘‘(B) determines whether each such act, 
policy, or practice reviewed under subparagraph 
(A)— 
‘‘(i) creates a supply chain vulner-
ability which would be detrimental to the 
United States defense, energy, and critical 
infrastructure sectors; or 
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‘‘(ii) violates, is inconsistent with, or 
otherwise denies the United States of a 
benefit under a bilateral or multilateral 
trade agreement with such identified coun-
try; and 
‘‘(C) provides an update for each plan pre-
viously submitted under paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) RESPONSE
TO
ADVERSE
ACTIONS.—Not 
later than 30 days after the submission of the report 
under paragraph (1), the Chief Critical Minerals Ne-
gotiator shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a plan to respond to the findings 
of the report, including any action taken under title 
III of this Act, to each act, policy, or practice identi-
fied in such report that was determined under para-
graph (1)(B) to violate, be inconsistent with, or oth-
erwise deny to the United States a benefit under a 
bilateral or multilateral trade agreement with such 
identified country or create a supply chain vulner-
ability which would be detrimental to the United 
States defense, energy, and critical infrastructure 
sectors. 
‘‘(3) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES DEFINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’ means Com-
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mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Finance of the 
Senate.’’. 
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