Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025
The Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025 would empower the Department of Commerce to take a more active, coordinated role in strengthening the United States’ critical supply chains and related emerging technologies. It expands the duties of the Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis, creates a federal Supply Chain Resilience Working Group with multiple agencies, and requires a formal process to identify and designate critical industries, goods, and supply chains. The bill mandates a national strategy and regular reporting to Congress on resilience, capacity, threats, and actions to mitigate shocks, including how to work with allies and key international partners. It also provides protections for information voluntarily shared with the government to improve supply chain resilience, while limiting reliance on new federal funds and establishing a 10-year sunset. Overall, the bill seeks to bolster domestic manufacturing, improve crisis planning, and reduce vulnerability to disruptions (from events like natural disasters, pandemics, cyber attacks, or geopolitical shocks) by coordinating federal action, encouraging relocation of production to the U.S. or allied nations, and increasing visibility into supply-chain networks. It emphasizes emerging technologies and aims to preserve readiness and access to critical goods even during shocks.
Key Points
- 1Expanded responsibilities for the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis. The office would actively promote stability and resilience of critical supply chains and emerging technologies, lead the new Supply Chain Resilience Working Group, support domestic manufacturing growth (especially for emerging technologies), assess resilience and capacity, and encourage relocation of certain manufacturing to the United States or allied nations.
- 2Establishment of the Critical Supply Chain Resilience Working Group. A cross-agency group including agencies such as State, Defense, Homeland Security, Transportation, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, Health and Human Services, the Intelligence community, and the Small Business Administration. The group would map and model critical supply chains, identify gaps and vulnerabilities, assess domestic and allied manufacturing capacity, and develop contingency plans and coordination mechanisms.
- 3Designation process for critical components. The Assistant Secretary would designate critical industries, supply chains, and goods within 120 days, with a public comment period and updates at least every four years. This helps focus federal attention and resources on the most essential parts of the economy.
- 4National strategy and ongoing reporting. Not later than 18 months after enactment and annually thereafter, the administration would report to Congress on strategies to strengthen resilience, including identifying infrastructure and technologies that support resilience, assessing demand/supply of critical goods, manufacturing capacity, and the impact on rural, Tribal, and underserved communities. The strategy would include actions to prevent, respond to, and recover from supply chain shocks and to coordinate with allies.
- 5Information protection and no new mandatory data sharing. The bill creates strong protections for voluntarily shared critical supply chain information (including data submitted with an express protection statement), limits how such information can be used or disclosed, and clarifies that sharing is voluntary and not a requirement. It also prohibits using the information in civil actions in certain ways and allows public disclosure only under specific conditions or with consent.