WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Blake Moore (R-UT) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) last week reintroduced the Protecting Circuit Boards and Substrates Act, a bipartisan effort aimed at rebuilding US capacity for PCBs and IC substrate manufacturing.
The legislation seeks to reduce reliance on foreign production, especially from China, and to safeguard the integrity of domestic supply chains critical to national security and economic growth.
The bill proposes a 25% tax credit for the purchase of US-made PCBs, and $3 billion in authorized funding to support new facilities and R&D. It also includes oversight measures such as Presidential review of large awards and safeguards to ensure national security.
“There has never been a more important time for Congress to get to work on reshoring our manufacturing,” said Rep. Moore. "The Chinese government’s open willingness to withhold access to technology and rare earth minerals proves that we are in a race against Beijing at all levels of the microelectronics ecosystem. This bill provides a tried-and-true approach to incentivizing American companies to produce printed circuit boards here at home: it will maintain the integrity of military and national security commercial materials, boost our economy and workforce, and usher in a new era of American manufacturing."
Rep. Krishnamoorthi added, “While we’ve made real progress in domestic chip production, microchips can’t function without printed circuit boards – 90% of which are made in Asia. Our bipartisan bill reduces that dangerous dependence by rebuilding US manufacturing, strengthening supply chains, and supporting American workers.”
“From F-35s to F-150s, the modern world is built on printed circuit boards, and we need to make more of them in America,” said David Schild, executive director, Printed Circuit Board Association of America (PCBAA), a US-based entity that supports the redomestician of production. “This bill will lead to new factories, high paying jobs and an ecosystem to support the work being done by our colleagues in the semiconductor industry."
