•HRES 179 IH 
Whereas, in 2022, the United States signed a Memorandum 
of Understanding (MOU) with the Democratic Republic 
of Congo and Zambia to support these two countries’ 
commitment to develop jointly a supply chain for electric 
vehicle batteries; 
Whereas the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects 
that between $180 billion and $220 billion are expected 
to be invested in the mining of critical minerals between 
2022 and 2030, but that only 10 percent of such amount 
are slated to be invested in Africa; 
Whereas, in 2023, the United States was 82 percent or more 
net-reliant on imports from abroad for supplies of at 
least 29 critical minerals, including 14 rare earth ele-
ments, and substantially import-reliant on other critical 
minerals and other technology-essential mined commod-
ities; and 
Whereas the often-substantial degree of PRC control over 
critical mineral supply chains, including through PRC-or-
igin foreign entities of concern and the PRC’s imposition 
of licensing regimes that could potentially restrict PRC 
exports of selected essential critical minerals pose grave 
national security risks to the United States: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, Tt is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that— 
(1) United States policy should seek to— 
(A) diversify the sources of supplies of crit-
ical minerals in a manner that prevents Foreign 
Entities of Concerns (FEOCs) from restricting, 
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increasing the cost, or otherwise negatively af-
fecting United States access to these resources; 
(B) improve the efficacy, efficiency, and 
coordination of United States Federal agencies 
working to help businesses invest in critical 
minerals in foreign countries friendly to the 
United States, including through these agen-
cies’ implementation of United States Govern-
ment commitments under the United States-led 
multinational Minerals Security Partnership 
(MSP); and 
(C) enhance mutually beneficial partner-
ship with countries in Africa that produce or 
possess reserves of critical minerals by— 
(i) mobilizing and supporting invest-
ments in new or expanded critical mineral 
production and processing projects in Afri-
can markets in order to bolster equitable 
and transparent global market-based ac-
cess to African mineral production and 
promote responsible sourcing and value- 
added processing of critical minerals in Af-
rica; 
(ii) providing incentives, such as fi-
nancing or technical assistance, for United 
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States business, and businesses in African 
countries friendly to the United States to 
invest in such mineral sector production 
and processing projects of strategic inter-
est to the United States; and 
(iii) urging the administration to 
transform the Memorandum of Under-
standing among the United States of 
America, the Democratic Republic of 
Congo, and the Republic of Zambia con-
cerning support for the development of a 
value chain in the electric vehicle battery 
sector into a meaningful investment pro-
gram that can be modelled and imple-
mented throughout the continent; and 
(2) the House of Representatives urges the Sec-
retary of State, in consultation with the Secretaries 
of Commerce, Energy, the Interior, Treasury, and 
Defense, the United States Agency for International 
Development, the Development Finance Corporation, 
the United States Export-Import Bank, and any 
other relevant Federal agencies as appropriate, to 
develop a 5-year strategy to achieve the following 
priorities: 
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(A) Strengthen United States commercial 
diplomacy and development efforts to support 
United States critical minerals investors and 
help address challenges of doing business in Af-
rican countries. 
(B) Provide financing and technical assist-
ance incentives and pursue public-private in-
vestment mobilization efforts to help eligible Af-
rican mineral producers to capitalize the expan-
sion of their critical mineral production and 
processing capacities in order to diversify 
United States critical mineral supply chains 
and advance African value-addition objectives. 
(C) Support through the United States 
International Development Finance Corporation 
and other Federal agencies, diversified equity 
funds and investment platforms that provide 
capital for or incentivize United States private 
sector investment future mining projects in Af-
rican countries. 
(D) Enhance economic cooperation with el-
igible African critical minerals producers. 
Æ 
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