WASHINGTON– June 14 2024 – The White House published today an “Executive Order on the White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience.”
The Executive Order (EO) echoes calls for the restart of negotiations with allies to secure America’s future access to data. This access is a key to resilient US supply chains that support US jobs. It also helps protect us from knowledge deficits or blind spots that impede our capacity to detect and recover from supply chain risks. Without reliable cross-border data access, US supply chains are neither resilient nor secure.
Per the EO, to guarantee resilient, diverse, and secure supply chains that ensure US economic prosperity, public health, and national security, the Council is to (inter alia):
- Coordinate and promote Federal Government efforts to strengthen long-term supply chain resilience and American industrial competitiveness
- Facilitate collaboration by agencies with allies and partners to foster greater global supply chain resilience
- Recommend to agencies procedures and best practices for agency cooperation and coordination on data collection and analysis, especially to the extent that agency missions may overlap or intersect, and help facilitate such cooperation and coordination
- Conduct a quadrennial supply chain review of industries critical to national or economic security. The review shall address the processes in place to monitor supply chains and the timeliness of the associated data. The Report shall address (inter alia)
- A strategic plan that includes diplomatic, economic, security, international development, trade, and other policy actions to guide United States engagement with allies and partners, including through regional economic frameworks or partnerships supported by the United States, to strengthen global supply chain resilience in critical sectors;
- Reforms to domestic and international trade rules and agreements that could be pursued to support supply chain resilience, security, diversity, sustainability, and strength; and
- Education and workforce reforms needed to strengthen the domestic industrial base for critical goods and materials and other essential goods, materials, and services.