(E) allow trade in Internet-related goods, 
services, information, and content, in accord-
ance with international trade agreements. 
(3) Certain governments are adopting policies 
contrary to the goal of a single open, global Internet, 
including— 
(A) mandating unique technology stand-
ards favoring domestic producers as a condition 
of market access or pursuing related policies re-
garding standard-setting that are discrimina-
tory and subvert the open, global nature of the 
Internet; 
(B) requiring that companies forfeit their 
intellectual property in Internet-related tech-
nologies as a condition of market access for 
commercial and civilian uses or government 
procurement; 
(C) sponsoring or tolerating the use of 
Internet-related tools to gain unauthorized ac-
cess to public-sector and private-sector net-
works in the United States to disrupt their op-
eration or for the purpose of misappropriation 
or infringement of intellectual property; 
(D) blocking, filtering, or otherwise re-
stricting Internet communications in a manner 
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that discriminates against Internet-based serv-
ices and content originating in other countries; 
and 
(E) imposing market access requirements 
or liabilities that discriminate against or other-
wise impede Internet-related goods, services and 
content from other countries. 
(4) Such actions threaten the interests of the 
United States by— 
(A) facilitating attempts by foreign govern-
ments to restrict or disrupt the free flow of in-
formation on the Internet; 
(B) promoting ‘‘national Internets’’ in con-
flict with the underlying rationale and architec-
ture of the Internet as originally envisioned and 
constructed, thereby compromising the Inter-
net’s full functionality and promise; 
(C) harming United States workers and 
businesses, undermining a strong United States 
industrial base, and putting foreign competitors 
at an advantage; and 
(D) putting at risk the utility of the Inter-
net as a tool of open communication, assembly, 
and commerce, and the individuals who seek to 
use it for such purposes. 
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SEC. 3. TASK FORCE ON THE GLOBAL INTERNET. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established within 
the executive branch a Task Force on the Global 
Internet (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Task 
Force’’). 
(2) CHAIRPERSON.—The President shall select 
from among the members of the Task Force under 
subsection (b) an individual to serve as Chairperson. 
(b) COMPOSITION.—The Task Force shall consist of 
the United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of 
State, the Chief Technology Officer, the Secretary of Com-
merce, the Assistant Secretary for Communications and 
Information of the National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration, the Secretary of Defense, the 
Attorney General, the Director of the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, the White House Cyberse-
curity Coordinator, and the heads of other executive 
branch departments and agencies, as appropriate, acting 
through their respective designees. The head of any such 
department or agency may detail such personnel and may 
furnish such services, with or without reimbursement, as 
the Task Force may request to assist in carrying out its 
functions. 
(c) FUNCTIONS.—In addition to such other respon-
sibilities the President may assign, the Task Force shall— 
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(1) develop and implement strategies in re-
sponse 
to 
foreign 
government 
policies 
that 
unjustifiably or unreasonably burden or restrict 
international trade in Internet-related goods, serv-
ices, and content, mandate or otherwise preference 
Internet-related technology standards and related 
measures, impede the free flow of information on the 
Internet, or otherwise threaten the interests of the 
United States in Internet-related international trade 
and the open, global nature of the Internet; 
(2) coordinate the activity of all executive 
branch departments and agencies as necessary to 
implement the strategies developed in accordance 
with paragraph (1); and 
(3) prepare a report and action plan in accord-
ance with section 4. 
SEC. 4. REPORT AND ACTION PLAN TO CONGRESS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than six months after 
the date of the enactment of this Act and annually there-
after, the Task Force shall transmit to the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Finance of the Senate a report and action 
plan that— 
(1) identifies acts, policies, or practices of a for-
eign government and related measures that— 
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(A) deny fair and equitable market access 
to or otherwise unjustifiably or unreasonably 
burden or restrict trade in Internet-related 
goods, services, and content; 
(B) mandate, give preference to, or pro-
mote Internet-related technology standards that 
diverge from widely adopted international 
standards, or otherwise lead to the adoption of 
discriminatory or trade-restrictive technology 
standards or conformity assessment procedures; 
(C) require the forfeiture of intellectual 
property of Internet-related technologies as a 
condition for market access; or 
(D) otherwise threaten the interests of the 
United States in the technical operation, secu-
rity, and free flow of global Internet commu-
nications; 
(2) estimates the trade-distorting impact of 
measures identified under paragraph (1) on United 
States commerce and the functioning of the Inter-
net; 
(3) designates which measures identified under 
paragraph (1) are priority concerns; 
(4) sets forth a strategy and actions to be taken 
by executive branch departments and agencies in re-
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