Sec. 7. Export control restrictions

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(1)of section 902(b) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 ( Public Law 101–246 ; 22 U.S.C. 2151 note) is amended, in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting and, in the case of any report issued on or after the date of the enactment of the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2018, the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region after Tibet . The Secretary of Commerce shall deny any application for a license under part I of subtitle B of title XVII of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 ( Public Law 115–232 ; 132 Stat. 2209; 50 U.S.C. 4811 et seq.) for export to the People’s Republic of China, including any Special Administrative Region thereof, of any machine learning, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, or biometric technology unless the applicant provides a sworn affirmative written certification that such technology will not knowingly be used by such applicant or any affiliate of such applicant, or knowingly sold or otherwise provided to any third party, to facilitate the mass arbitrary detention of Turkic Muslims in the People’s Republic of China on the basis of associations or conduct which would not constitute offenses under United States law or regulation or to otherwise further conduct described in any regulation promulgated pursuant to paragraph (2)(A). The Secretary of Commerce may prescribe regulations applying the prohibitions and requirements described in paragraph

(1)to additional categories of— conduct directly relating to pervasive human rights violations targeted against Turkic Muslims in the People’s Republic of China; or advanced technology determined by the Secretary to be substantially derivative of the technologies described in paragraph (1). Nothing in paragraph

(1)or

(2)shall be construed to require or endorse the issuance of a license for export to any applicant with respect to any of the technologies described in paragraph

(1)irrespective of such applicant’s provision of an affirmative written certification described in paragraph (1). Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall, in consultation with other relevant Federal officials, promulgate regulations providing for end-user restrictions on any element of the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China, or entity acting on its behalf, which is located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and is determined to substantially facilitate the mass arbitrary detention of Turkic Muslims in the People’s Republic of China on the basis of associations or conduct that would not constitute offenses under United States law or regulation.

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