21. Department of Commerce · Minor
Restructure Industry and Analysis for ongoing supply-chain analysis
Printed page 669 21. Department of Commerce
“Going forward, I&A should be permanently restructured to perform supply-chain analysis on an ongoing basis for the U.S. government, identifying potential vulnerabilities like those exposed by the pandemic and resulting shortages in everything from semiconductors to baby formula.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing found. Industry and Analysis has not been restructured; no Commerce organization order, Federal Register notice or budget document establishes an ongoing government-wide supply-chain analysis function inside it.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
Cluster negative search E&C-1 (chapter log): Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "self-initiation" (1 hit, a 2025-03-31 correction notice), "surrogate country" (73 hits, all individual AD/CVD case notices), "non-market economy" methodology (131, same), "Top Markets" (0); plus a jq pass over every in-window Federal Register record whose agency is the International Trade Administration, with the individual AD/CVD case notices filtered out. Also Federal Register full text since 2025-01-20 for "Industry and Analysis" and for
"supply chain" analysis restricted to the Commerce Department slug; and "Department Organization Order" across all types, which returns 0 in-window documents (the same negative the major-tier
entry #1867 recorded for NOAA).
The FY2027 Budget’s Commerce chapter is attached because it moves the other way on ITA’s shape, cutting Global Markets by $150 million and “reducing posts in low-value markets”; the FY2026 request’s promise to “build the analytical tools necessary to address supply chain and sourcing risks” is money for BIS, not a restructuring of I&A.
- Action
- other
- Object
- Industry and Analysis unit of ITA
- ID
- 1838