Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through the Equipment Authorization Program

Document 2025-21001 is a Final Rule published by the Federal Communications Commission in the Federal Register on November 25, 2025, with an effective date of December 26, 2025. In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) clarifies that rules prohibiting authorization of covered equipment include modular transmitters and adopts a prohibition on authorization of devices that include modular transmitters that are covered equipment. The Commission also adopts a procedure to limit previously granted authorizations of covered equipment to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of such equipment. It further discusses the broad scope of the prohibition on authorization of equipment identified on the Covered List by clarifying the term "produced by" as used in the Commission's rules concerning covered equipment and clarifying the prohibition on modification to previously authorized covered equipment. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21001/protecting-against-national-security-threats-to-the-communications-supply-chain-through-the.

No. Document 2025-21001 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.