H. R. 1316 
One Hundred Nineteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five 
An Act 
To amend the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 relating to licensing transparency. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Maintaining American Superiority 
by Improving Export Control Transparency Act’’. 
SEC. 2. LICENSING TRANSPARENCY. 
Section 1756 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (50 
U.S.C. 4815) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this subsection, and not less frequently 
than annually thereafter, the Secretary, shall, subject to the 
availability of appropriations, submit to the appropriate 
congressional committees a report on end-use checks related 
to, as well as license applications and other requests for 
authorization for the export, reexport, release, and in-country 
transfer of items controlled under this part to covered entities. 
‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—The report required by paragraph (1) shall 
include, with respect to the preceding one year-period, the 
following: 
‘‘(A) For each license application or other request for 
authorization, the name of the entity submitting the 
application, a brief description of the item (including the 
Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) and reason 
for control, if applicable), the name of the end-user, the 
end-user’s location, a value estimate, decision with respect 
to the license application or authorization, and the date 
of submission. 
‘‘(B) The date, location, and result of any end-use 
checks, to ensure compliance with United States export 
controls. 
‘‘(C) Aggregate statistics on all license applications and 
other requests for authorization as described in subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(3) CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.—The information 
required to be provided in the reports required by this sub-
section (other than the information required by paragraph 
(2)(C)) shall be exempt from public disclosure pursuant to sec-
tion 1761(h)(1).
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‘‘(4) PROTECTING
ENFORCEMENT
INFORMATION.—In pre-
paring and submitting a report under subsection (e), the Sec-
retary shall ensure that information that may jeopardize an 
ongoing investigation shall not be included in the contents 
of the report. 
‘‘(5) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘appropriate congressional committees’ 
means— 
‘‘(i) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House 
of Representatives; and 
‘‘(ii) the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate; and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘covered entity’ means any entity that— 
‘‘(i) is located in a country listed in Country Group 
D:5 under Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of title 15, 
Code of Federal Regulations; and 
‘‘(ii) is included on— 
‘‘(I) the list maintained and set forth in Supple-
ment No. 4 to part 744 of the Export Administra-
tion Regulations; or 
‘‘(II) the list maintained and set forth in 
Supplement No. 7 to part 744 of the Export 
Administration Regulations.’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.