Executive Order 14320 is a Trump administration executive order signed July 23, 2025, and published July 28, 2025 (90 FR 35393). It establishes the American AI Exports Program, a coordinated federal effort to promote global deployment of full-stack US AI technology through diplomatic, financial, and regulatory tools, supporting industry-led consortia that compete against Chinese AI in third-country markets.
Signed: July 23, 2025 Published: July 28, 2025 (90 FR 35393) President: Donald Trump (47th)
American AI Exports Program (Section 3)
Section 3 directs the Secretary of Commerce to establish the American AI Exports Program within 90 days. The Program begins with a public call for proposals from industry-led consortia. Each proposal is required to include a full-stack AI technology package (hardware, data pipelines, models, cybersecurity, and applications), identified target countries or regional blocs, a business and operational model for data center ownership, the federal incentives and support requested, and an export-control compliance certification.
Commerce evaluates proposals on a rolling basis in consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, and Energy and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Selected packages receive priority designation, which grants access to the federal financing tools set out in Section 4.
Federal financing tools (Section 4)
The Economic Diplomacy Action Group (EDAG) coordinates deployment of financing across three federal bodies. The Export-Import Bank provides direct loans and loan guarantees (12 U.S.C. § 635). The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) provides equity investments, co-financing, political risk insurance, and credit guarantees (22 U.S.C. § 9621). The Trade and Development Agency provides technical assistance and feasibility studies (22 U.S.C. § 2421(b)).
AI exports diplomacy (Section 4(c))
Section 4(c) assigns the State Department a diplomatic role: developing a unified federal strategy for promoting US AI technologies and standards, pursuing multilateral initiatives and country-specific AI deployment partnerships, supporting partner countries in building "pro-innovation regulatory, data, and infrastructure environments," and conducting market access analysis. The provision directs support for partner countries in building regulatory environments "conducive to the deployment of American AI systems," positioning US AI governance norms as an export alongside the technology itself.
Policy context
EO 14320 functions as the affirmative counterpart to export controls: rather than restricting Chinese AI technology from leaving China, it promotes US AI into the same markets. The order frames the global AI governance contest as both a competition for technical leadership and a standards competition, on the premise that a third country adopting a given AI stack also adopts its associated norms.
The order connects to several other policies. It complements chip export controls (Export Controls (AI)), with both aimed at maintaining US AI dominance through restriction on one side and promotion on the other. It frames third-country adoption as a choice between US-stack and China-stack AI Sovereignty. It operationalizes, through an incentive structure, the framework in Geopolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, which argues for conditional engagement with allies on AI technology sharing.
Relationships
- related: Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence — first Trump AI EO; established the dominance framing
- related: Executive Order 14365 — comprehensive AI policy framework
- related: Export Controls (AI) — the complementary restriction-side policy
- related: AI Sovereignty — third-country stack choice as sovereignty question
- related: Geopolitics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Sullivan/Feldman framework for US AI technology diplomacy
- related: BIS Framework for AI Diffusion — Interim Final Rule (Jan 13, 2025) — the Biden-era diffusion rule this supersedes/replaces in spirit