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\u201cmenu of priority AI export packages that the U.S. Government will promote to allies and partners around the world.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>  <br \/>\n<audio id=\"audio-player\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-tts-cdn.api.scpnewsgrp.com\/cyberscoop\/88563\/english.openai.mp3\"><\/audio> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"11\">\n<div>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p>0:00<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p> <span id=\"tts-tooltip\">Learn more.<\/span> <span> This feature uses an automated voice, which may result in occasional errors in pronunciation, tone, or sentiment. <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"single-article__cover-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"single-article__cover\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/commerce-setting-up-new-ai-export-regime-to-push-adoption-of-american-ai-abroad.jpg?resize=640%2C436&ssl=1\" class=\"single-article__cover-image 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sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\"><figcaption> (L-R) U.S. President Donald Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick look on as White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump signed an executive order that curbs states’ ability to regulate AI. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"45.775551102204\"><body readability=\"92.452380952381\"><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Commerce is putting together a catalog of AI tools that will be given special export status by the federal government to be sold abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The department issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/FR-2026-04-10\/pdf\/2026-06952.pdf?utm_campaign=subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov\">call for proposals <\/a>to participating companies in the Federal Register, looking to create a \u201cmenu of priority AI export packages that the U.S. Government will promote to allies and partners around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The companies and technologies included \u201cwill be presented by U.S. Government representatives as a standing, full-stack American AI export package and may receive priority government advocacy, export licensing review and processing, interagency coordination, and financing referrals, subject to applicable law,\u201d the department said in a Federal Register notice Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The export package was mandated through President Donald Trump\u2019s AI executive order last year, which described the export packages as part of a larger effort to \u201censure that American AI technologies, standards, and governance models are adopted worldwide\u201d and \u201csecure our continued technological dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe American AI Exports Program delivers on President Trump\u2019s directive to ensure that American AI systems \u2013 built on trusted hardware, secure data, and world-leading innovation \u2013 are deployed at scale around the world,\u201d Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trade.gov\/press-release\/department-commerce-begins-inaugural-call-proposals-american-ai-exports-program\">statement<\/a> earlier this month. \u201cBy promoting full-stack American solutions, we are strengthening our economic and national security, deepening ties with allies and partners, and ensuring that the future of AI is led by the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The executive order called for certain technologies to be included in the package, including AI models and systems but also computer chips, data center storage, cloud services and networking services, along with unspecified \u201cmeasures\u201d to ensure security and cybersecurity of AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Commerce notice envisions offering multiple packages of AI technology from \u201cstanding teams of AI companies organized to offer a complete American AI technology stack <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/ai-race-china-us-cloud-cybersecurity-trust-security-op-ed\/\">to foreign markets on an ongoing basis<\/a>.\u201d There is no limit on the number of companies that participate in a consortium, and Commerce said there isn\u2019t \u201cany particular legal structure\u201d required.<\/p>\n<p>While the proposal at several points refers to these packages as \u201cAmerican AI,\u201d the notice does specify that foreign companies can participate.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, for certain categories like hardware, the total level of U.S.-made content only needs to be 51% or greater. Member companies providing data, software, cybersecurity or application layer services can\u2019t be incorporated or primarily based in countries like China or Russia, where national security laws may compel them to work with foreign governments or hand over sensitive data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The potential business would be broad, covering foreign public and private sector buyers in global, regional, and country-specific markets. It also includes the potential formation of separate, \u201con demand\u201d packages of companies and products meant for \u201cspecific foreign opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the notice also states that final decisions will be made on the basis of \u201cnational interest\u201d by principals at the Departments of Commerce, State, Defense and Energy, as well as the White House Office of Science, Technology and Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Commerce does not intend to formally rank proposals or use fixed scoring formulas to approve packages of technology for the export program, and the language in the notice appears to give wide latitude to federal decisionmakers to determine whether a particular proposal meets the \u201cnational interest\u201d threshold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA proposal that undertakes reasonable efforts to satisfy the 51 percent hardware U.S.-content presumption is not automatically entitled to designation, and a proposal that does not satisfy that presumption is not automatically disqualified,\u201d the notice said. <\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.6162361623616\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/commerce-setting-up-new-ai-export-regime-to-push-adoption-of-american-ai-abroad-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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