On December 4, 2025, senators from both major U.S. political parties in the Senate put forward the Secure and Feasible Export Act. This act is designed to enshrine existing export control measures targeting advanced semiconductors bound for China within a formal legal structure.

Under the terms of this act, the administrative arm of the U.S. government will be mandated to reject export license applications for advanced chips destined for China, Russia, and several other nations over the course of the next 30 months. The scope of the act encompasses chip products that outperform the currently established export benchmarks.

Such a measure has the potential to severely disrupt chip exports to China from prominent companies such as Nvidia, AMD, and Alphabet (the parent company of Google). The timing of this proposal is particularly noteworthy as it coincides with the White House's contemplation of loosening restrictions on the export of Nvidia's H200 chips to China, a development that has drawn considerable attention from both the political and industrial sectors.