Executive Order 14387: Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate- Based Herbicides

What the order contains

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• Sec. 1. Policy and Findings
• Sec. 2. Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides
• Sec. 3. Immunity
• Sec. 4. General Provisions

Section 1, quoted from the order

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Elemental phosphorus is pervasive in defense supply chains and is therefore crucial to military readiness and national defense. It is a key input in smoke, illumination, and incendiary devices and is a critical component for manufacturing the semiconductors that are central to numerous defense technologies, such as radar, solar cells, sensors, and optoelectronics. It is also increasingly important in modern lithium-ion battery chemistries used in a multitude of weapon-system supply chains. For these and other reasons, on November 7, 2025, the Department of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Energy Act of 2020, designated phosphate as a critical mineral. […]

Federal Register notes

See: EO 13603, March 16, 2012