Executive Order 14320 explained · Executive Order · No disposition noted
Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack
Signed: 2025-07-23 Published: 2025-07-28 Federal Register document: 2025-14218
Agencies: Executive Office of the President
What Executive Order 14320 says
Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 35393-35395] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-14218] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 142 / Monday, July 28, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 35393]] Executive Order 14320 of July 23, 2025 Promoting the Export of the American AI Technology Stack By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a foundational technology that will define the future of economic growth, national security, and global competitiveness for decades to come. The United States must not only lead in developing general-purpose and frontier AI capabilities, but also ensure that American AI technologies, standards, and governance models are adopted worldwide to strengthen relationships with our allies and secure our continued technological dominance. This order establishes a coordinated national effort to support the American AI industry by promoting the export of full-stack American AI technology packages. Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to preserve and...
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Executive Order 14320 coordinates foreign promotion of United States-origin full-stack artificial intelligence packages through voluntary industry proposals, diplomacy, and existing federal financing authorities, subject to applicable law and appropriations. It rests on federal foreign commerce and executive foreign-affairs powers, imposes no domestic mandate, search, speech restriction, taking, or denial of due process, and leaves domestic authority decentralized.
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✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
Foreign commerce and foreign affairs are core federal powers. Congress holds power over foreign commerce under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3, and the President conducts diplomacy and executes laws under Article II, Sections 2 and 3. The order directs the Secretaries of Commerce and State to coordinate export promotion and deploy financing tools already authorized by cited statutes, implemented co… -
✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
No provision compels or restricts domestic speech, religion, press, assembly, arms ownership, searches, self-incrimination, trial rights, or other protections under Amendments 1-10. Participation is voluntary industry consortia proposals, directed at foreign deployment, with express requirement to comply with export controls and applicable law. No censorship, surveillance, disarmament, quartering,… -
✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
No person is restricted in use of person, property, speech, labor, or belief. Firms may choose whether to submit consortium proposals; no mandate to build, sell, buy, or adopt particular artificial intelligence systems domestically. Government support such as loans, guarantees, and technical assistance expands options rather than coercing conduct, so no justification burden under the Ninth Amendme… -
✓ Passes · Decentralization
Foreign export promotion, financing coordination, and diplomacy cannot be handled by individuals, localities, or single states without fragmenting foreign policy. The Constitution reserves unified foreign commerce and foreign affairs to the national government under Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 and Article II, Sections 2-3. This does not consolidate domestic regulatory power upward; it operates … -
✓ Passes · Due process and takings
No deprivation of life, liberty, or property, no criminal process, and no taking under the Fifth Amendment. Priority designation grants access to financing and diplomatic support but creates no enforceable right, imposes no fine or seizure, and the order expressly states it creates no substantive or procedural right enforceable against the United States. Action is non-arbitrary with stated criteri…
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