The Atlantic Declaration: A Framework for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership

The Atlantic Declaration: A Framework for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership
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Today the United States and the United Kingdom are announcing the Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership to ensure that our unique alliance is adapted, reinforced, and reimagined for the challenges of this moment.

Over the last century, the essential partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom has enabled us to lead together on issues of global importance. Since the signing of the Atlantic Charter in 1941, we have worked together to shape an open and rules-based international order based on our enduring support for shared values. In the New Atlantic Charter signed in 2021, we underscored and refreshed this vision. Together, we also designed an international economic architecture that has underpinned our economic strength and helped to lift millions around the world out of poverty. Our essential bilateral relationship is underpinned by the closest cooperation on defense and security, a thriving economic relationship, leadership in science and technology, and deep ties between our people and civil societies.

U.S.-UK cooperation and joint leadership is as essential today as ever – both internationally and for the security and prosperity of our people at home. To achieve this, we must keep pace with changes in the world around us and adapt our alliance to them. The global economy is undergoing one of the greatest transformations since the Industrial Revolution. Breakthroughs in innovation offer enormous potential if we can harness them to work for, not against, our democracies and security. The transition to the clean energy economies of the future is an opportunity to improve jobs and livelihoods and deepen the resilience of our economies. At the same time, the nature of national security is changing. Technology, economics, and national security are more deeply intertwined than ever before. We face new challenges to international stability – from authoritarian states such as Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC); disruptive technologies; non-state actors; and transnational challenges like climate change.

Over the past year, we have taken steps to deepen our unrivalled defense, security, and intelligence relationship across every theater in the globe in which we cooperate, recognizing the indivisibility of security in the Euro-Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific and other regions. We have energized our traditional alliances and built new and innovative partnerships based on deeper cooperation on technology, trade, and security. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in our resolve to support Ukraine for as long as it takes in the face of Russia’s illegal, unjustifiable, and unprovoked war of aggression and to preserve a free, independent, and sovereign Ukraine. We are committed to continuing to strengthen NATO’s ability to deter further attempts to undermine Alliance security, in support of NATO’s new Strategic Concept.

We have taken significant steps to implement AUKUS, including announcing our plans to support Australia acquiring conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines. Through our deeper engagement in the Indo-Pacific we are working more closely than ever before with our partners to support a free and open region. Through the U.S.-UK Indo-Pacific Dialogue we will continue to find new opportunities to coordinate our approaches, to support ASEAN and ASEAN centrality, to partner with the Pacific Islands, to coordinate on economic and technological advancement, and to contribute to regional peace and stability, including through AUKUS and expanded joint exercises and planning, including trilaterally.

Today, we are announcing the Atlantic Declaration for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership to build on that partnership in the economic sphere. The United States and the United Kingdom resolve to partner to build resilient, diversified, and secure supply chains and reduce strategic dependencies. We remain committed to continuing to lead in the technologies of the future and advance the closest possible coordination on our economic security and technology protection toolkits to ensure that emerging technologies work for, not against, our democracies and security. And as democratic and open societies we resolve to work together to ensure the safety, prosperity, and security of our nations and peoples while driving growth in living standards across the world.

The Atlantic Declaration and accompanying Action Plan form the basis of a new type of innovative partnership across the full spectrum of our economic, technological, commercial and trade relations; a first of its kind, and which demands our joint leadership and imagination to realize in full.

It will constitute a new economic security framework covering ever-closer cooperation on critical and emerging technologies and stronger protective toolkits. It will support the United States and the United Kingdom in our efforts to harness the energy transition and technological breakthroughs to drive broadly shared growth, create good jobs, and leave no community behind. It will explore ways to deepen our trade and investment relationship. And it will strengthen our alliance across defense, science, health security, and space – allowing us to explore increased cooperation in other areas for mutual economic benefit.

These are the pressing economic issues of our time. These are the issues that demand the United States and the United Kingdom to lead together.

Action Plan for a Twenty-First Century U.S.-UK Economic Partnership (ADAPT)

Deep economic ties between the United States and the United Kingdom have long been a source of mutual strength. The U.S.-UK bilateral investment relationship is the largest in the world, with over $1.5 trillion in stock supporting more than 2.7 million jobs in both countries. As we evolve our unparalleled economic relationship to reflect today’s challenges, we have an opportunity to exemplify what a twenty-first century economic partnership should look like. Together the United States and the United Kingdom can lead in building a new form of economic partnership that advances economic growth and competitiveness, that builds capacity, resilience, and inclusiveness, and works for our workers and communities; works for our businesses; works for our climate; and works for our national security.

  • As the first steps in this new partnership, we are today announcing and taking concrete and coordinated actions to deepen this partnership across five pillars, by:
  • ensuring U.S.-UK leadership in critical and emerging technologies,
  • advancing ever-closer cooperation on our economic security and technology protection toolkits and supply chains,
  • partnering on an inclusive and responsible digital transformation,
  • building the clean energy economy of the future, and
  • further strengthening our alliance across defense, health security, and space.

Senior White House and Downing Street representatives will convene biannually under the Atlantic Declaration Action Plan (ADAPT) to develop and drive forward concrete progress across the Atlantic Declaration Action Plan and ensure increasing ambition over the next months and years.

1. Ensuring U.S.-UK Leadership in Critical and Emerging Technologies

A handful of critical and emerging technologies are forming the backbone of new industries and shaping our national security landscape. ​These technologies include semiconductors, quantum technologies, artificial intelligence, cutting-edge telecommunications, and synthetic biology. As the home of world-leading companies and academic institutions, we are committed to ensuring the United States and the United Kingdom continue to lead across these sectors. We intend to do so by collaborating on tangible research and development joint efforts ​, deepening public-private dialogue across our priority technologies, jointly mobilizing private capital towards strategic technologies​ ​​and by improving reciprocal talent flows​.​ These long term initiatives​ ​are the initial steps in a long-term partnership and will fall under existing U.S.-UK frameworks, including the U.S.-UK Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, the U.S.-UK Comprehensive Dialogue on Technology and Data, and additional forums as applicable, through which we will ​​​develop and deliver a shared workplan on critical and emerging technologies, to be updated and taken forward within the next twelve months. ​

  • Launching​​ collaborative work on priority technologies. ​We intend to explore joint efforts and collaborative R&D in a range of critical and emerging technologies and pursue a set of initial activities, including the following:
    • Pursuing a range of quantum technologies initiatives to address fundamental research questions in quantum science and other initiatives to reduce barriers to U.S.-UK collaboration, such as increasing researcher and student mobility, and exploring workforce development activities to foster the exchange of people and ideas.
    • Cementing leadership by the United States and the United Kingdom in cutting-edge telecoms by setting out a joint vision, taking forward joint R&D projects, and deepening cooperation on technical activity in innovative 5G and 6G solutions, including more ambitious cooperation to accelerate Open RAN to market, and to increase the diversity and resilience of critical supply chains.
    • Deepening cooperation on synthetic biology with a view to concluding a joint workplan to drive public and private cooperation, exchanges, and joint research, developing novel applications and promoting our economic security through improved supply chain pathways for biomanufacturing and biotechnologies.
    • Exploring collaborative R&D in areas that support advanced semiconductor technologies, such as advanced materials and compound semiconductors, beginning in the next twelve months, and facilitating collaboration among our national research institutes.
    • Accelerating our cooperation on AI with a focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of the technology.​
  • Mobilizing private capital towards strategic technologies. We intend to support the growth of companies in both countries across these critical and emerging technologies. We intend to work together to crowd in private capital to ensure companies in these areas have the ability to emerge and scale. To this end, we commit to set up a U.S.-UK Strategic Technologies Investor Council within the next twelve months. We will use this newly formed Council to bring leading investors from both sides of the Atlantic together with national security experts to analyze where funding gaps currently exist and unlock new private investment in critical and emerging technologies.
  • Facilitating reciprocal talent flows. We recognize the need for a skilled workforce across our technology sectors. As part of meeting this objective, we leverage expertise from across the public sector, industry, and academia to advise on how we best improve U.S.-UK reciprocal talent flows. The United States welcomes funding from the United Kingdom for expansion of Marshall and Fulbright scholarships focused on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics subjects, to deepen the ​​wider ​​exchange of talent between our two countries.​

2. Advancing Ever Closer Cooperation on Technology Protection, Economic Security Toolkits and Supply Chains

Many of our technology protection tools were designed for a different time, a different set of threats, and a different set of technologies. We recognize that our current regulatory frameworks related to export controls, investment screening, sanctions, and research and development security are essential tools that should correspond to a changing geostrategic and technological environment. We intend to take concrete steps to update and more closely align our respective toolkits across all these areas to prevent the leakage of sensitive and dual-use emerging technologies, and other export-controlled commodities and technologies. We will work to enhance our information-sharing mechanisms on threat information with relevant stakeholders in the policy and intelligence communities, including deepening our cooperation on investment security.

  • Addressing the national security risks posed by certain types of outbound investment. As allies with a close and long-standing defense partnership, and as global leaders in critical and emerging technologies, we have a shared objective in preventing our companies’ capital and expertise from fueling technological advances that will enhance the military and intelligence capabilities of countries of concern. We are taking steps to ensure that our respective toolkits are adequate to meet our shared objective. The United States is working to develop a targeted set of controls on outbound investments in sensitive technologies with a core national security nexus. The United Kingdom intends to complement this by swiftly engaging a range of business and financial stakeholders to develop an evidence base to assess and inform how the UK can best calibrate its actions to respond effectively to these risks and meet our shared objective. As we act according to our own respective timelines, we will communicate clearly to the private sector regarding our joint resolve and shared objectives in this area.
  • Ensuring flexible and coordinated export controls. Against the backdrop of a rapidly shifting and ever more sophisticated technological landscape, our toolkits must address evolving challenges. We will therefore work together to enable our respective toolkits to work in a complementary way, implementing export controls related to certain sensitive technologies, including targeting end-uses of concern, and considering our approach to tackling the challenge of intangible transfers. The United Kingdom has enhanced its capability in this area by expanding the scope of its Military End Use Controls (MEUC) regime and is progressing work – due to complete by the autumn – to understand its impact. The United Kingdom will consult later this year on updating its export control regime and consider how best to flexibly and rapidly tackle sensitive technology transfers. The United Kingdom will also consult on the targeting of end uses and end-users of concern. Building on our existing cooperation and recognising that the multilateral system faces challenges in accommodating new realities and that creative solutions are necessary, both sides will advance work and bilateral consultations in the coming months to enable deeper collaboration and ensure both our export control systems are able together to tackle the identified threats.
  • Strengthening our world-leading partnership across sanctions strategy, design, targeting, implementation and enforcement. We will continue to coordinate our work to tackle sanctions evasion and intend to jointly target those facilitating Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in Russia, Belarus, and in third countries, including those who help Russia acquire goods and technology that support Russian aggression. We intend to enhance our ability to collect, analyze, and share information and data with a financial sanctions nexus from our financial institutions and businesses, including for identification of companies and individuals financially supporting or facilitating payments to Russia’s war machine. We further intend to work closely together to protect humanitarian activity from unintended impacts of sanctions, building on our significant cooperation on the landmark UN Security Council Resolution 2664. We have implemented exceptions for humanitarian activities in our UN programs. The United States has implemented these exceptions in its autonomous sanctions programs, and the United Kingdom will take this further in its autonomous sanctions programs as appropriate. We will also continue joint work to underline that food supplies are not the target of our sanctions.
  • Reducing our vulnerabilities across critical technology supply chains. Recent events have shown that our supply chains need to be made more resilient to geopolitical incidents, natural disasters, third country policies, economic coercion, and other possible shocks. The United Kingdom and United States recognize the strategic and shared imperative of building resilient semiconductor and other critical technology supply chains and are putting in place robust strategies to minimize disruptions. In order to further this cooperation, the United States and the United Kingdom will work bilaterally to share analysis, develop, and deepen our channels for coordination and timely consultation during critical technology supply chain disruptions and crises.

3. Partnering on an Inclusive and Responsible Digital Transformation

As we promote the critical and emerging technology ecosystems in our countries, we will work together to shape the policy environment around technology and enable further responsible innovation.

  • Enhancing cooperation on data. ​​The trusted and secure flow of data across our borders is foundational to efforts to further innovation. To that end, we have committed in principle to establish a U.S.-UK Data Bridge to facilitate data flows between our countries while ensuring strong and effective privacy protections. We are working to finalize our respective assessments swiftly to implement this framework. We also intend to coordinate to further promote trust in the digital economy, including through support for the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum and the OECD’s Declaration on Government Access to Personal Data Held by Private Sector Entities, and to build shared understandings on data security risks.
  • Accelerating cooperation on AI.​​ The United States and the United Kingdom recognize Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform our societies and economies and share a commitment to the role of government action to unlock the opportunities and mitigate the risks arising from the rapid development of these technologies.​​ We will accelerate our cooperation on AI with a focus on ensuring the safe and responsible development of the technology. Both nations welcome ongoing activity internationally including at the OECD, UN, Global Partnership for AI, Council of Europe, and International Standards Organisations, as well as the G7 Hiroshima AI Process, and recognize the need to go further particularly with respect to the risks and opportunities AI presents. The United States welcomes the Prime Minister’s plans to launch the first Global Summit on AI Safety, to be hosted in the United Kingdom this year, and commits to attend at a high level. This effort, which fits with the United Kingdom’s comprehensive and balanced approach to AI risks and opportunities, will bring together key countries, as well as leading technology companies and researchers, to drive targeted, rapid international action focused on safety and security at the frontier of this technology, including exploring safety measures to evaluate and monitor risks from AI. The United States has taken strong action to promote responsible innovation and is undertaking a process to advance a comprehensive approach to AI-related risk and opportunities, including comprehensive engagement with companies, research, civil society, and our allies and partners.
  • Deepening collaboration on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. ​To maximize the responsible use of data, we intend to launch a Collaboration on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) that will allow us to gain more valuable insight from data and train responsible AI models, enabling economic and societal benefits, while protecting individuals’ privacy and our democratic principles.

4. Building the Clean Energy Economy of the Future

The United States and the United Kingdom are both committed to meeting our goals under the Paris Agreement, building a clean energy economy, strengthening resilient supply chains, and investing in our industrial bases. We share a belief that building a clean energy economy is one of the most significant opportunities to create good jobs with high labor standards. We affirm that bold investment and strategic public funding are necessary to achieve these goals. We are committed to deepening cooperation to develop and strengthen clean energy supply chains, including building diverse, resilient, and secure critical mineral and battery supply chains that reduce unwanted strategic dependencies to meet our defense, economic, energy security, and climate goals. As we pursue our national strategies, we will work to align our approaches wherever possible to make clean energy technologies more affordable for all nations and help drive a global, just, and secure energy transition for workers and communities that will leave no one behind. We are committed to making the 2020s the decisive decade for climate action, implementing our respective ambitious 2030 nationally determined contributions under the Paris Agreement, and meeting our 2050 net zero emission goals.

  • Launching negotiations on a Critical Minerals Agreement. With congressional consultation, we intend to immediately begin negotiations on a targeted critical minerals agreement covering the five relevant critical minerals most important for electric vehicles – cobalt, graphite, lithium, manganese, and nickel – that are extracted or processed in the United Kingdom count toward sourcing requirements for clean vehicles eligible for the Section 30D clean vehicle tax credit of the Inflation Reduction Act. We intend to use these focused negotiations to ensure the consistency of our approaches on supply chain diversification and robust labor and environmental standards to support the creation of well-paying jobs with a free and fair choice to join a labor union on both sides of the Atlantic. Through our strong U.S.-UK partnership we will work towards increasing our respective and collective clean energy industrial capacity, boosting electric vehicle production and deployment, and expanding access to sustainable, secure, high-standard critical mineral and battery supply chains.
  • Partnering on a Joint Clean Energy Supply Chain Action Plan. Today we are announcing the launch of a one-year Joint Clean Energy Supply Chain Action Plan. Through the U.S.-UK Joint Action Group on Energy Security and Affordability (the JAG), the United States and the United Kingdom will, by the end of 2023, identify and decide on near-term actions our two countries can take in parallel and together to accelerate the buildout of capacity in our countries and third countries sufficient to meet the clean energy demands of the future. We intend to conduct public-private consultations across key clean energy supply chains, including offshore wind and electric vehicle batteries, and conduct rapid stress-test exercises across key clean energy supply chains, which could form a model for future work on supply chain resilience.
  • Launching a Civil Nuclear Partnership. Building on our unique economic and security relationship, and recognizing our complementary capabilities, we are launching a civil nuclear partnership overseen by senior officials in both governments. The JAG will also be mobilized to set near-term priorities for joint action to encourage the establishment of new infrastructure and end-to-end fuel cycle capabilities by 2030 in both continents, and substantially minimize reliance on Russian fuel, supplies, and services. Our joint activity and leadership will support and facilitate the safe, secure, and sustainable international deployment of advanced, peaceful nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors, in accordance with the highest non-proliferation standards and consistent with a 1.5 degree Celsius limit on global warming. These priorities will form the basis of a Joint Standing Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation (JSCNEC), which is designed to deliver on shared commitments by the end of the year and serve as an enduring bilateral forum to advance shared policy goals across existing engagement mechanisms, including near-term actions identified through the JAG, and facilitate exchanges on new and evolving technical and policy developments regarding nuclear energy.

5. Strengthening our Alliance Across Defense, Health Security, and Space

We are further strengthening the U.S.-UK alliance in emerging areas with critical nexuses to economic resilience and economic security.

  • Continuing to optimize our longstanding defense cooperation. We continue to optimize our longstanding defense cooperation and ensure that defense and technology trade and exports between our countries are as frictionless as possible, particularly as part of our efforts to enable collaboration in and between AUKUS nations. To this end, the President plans to ask the United States Congress to add the United Kingdom as a “domestic source” within the meaning of Title III of the Defense Production Act. Doing so would deepen industrial base collaboration, accelerate, and strengthen AUKUS implementation, build new opportunities for United States investment in multiple strategic sectors, and support our efforts to increase our respective and collective industrial capacity across both clean energy and key technology sectors. Together the U.S. and the UK are taking steps to streamline defense trade between our nations, including the U.S. proposal to Congress to modernize export control laws to enhance collaboration between and among AUKUS nations. The UK is also examining its export control regime to streamline the flow of defense trade among the AUKUS partners.
  • Strengthening bilateral cooperation on biological and health security. Building on the New Atlantic Charter, we commit to strengthening bilateral collaboration between our two nations on biological security, reflecting our shared ambition to bolster future heath and economic resilience against a growing and diverse spectrum of biological threats (deliberate, accidental, or natural), including drug-resistant infections. To this end, we will increase our collaboration to overcome the market failures that prevent vital research and development of anti-microbial vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics – via mechanisms such as the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X). We will enhance our cooperation on tackling emerging infectious disease threats with pandemic or epidemic potential and promote biosafety, biosecurity, and responsible innovation in the biotechnology and life science sectors domestically and internationally to realize the full potential of the growing bioeconomy. We reaffirm our commitment to strengthen global norms against the misuse of biology and prohibitions on the development of biological weapons.
  • Looking to the future and deepening our partnership across all sectors of space cooperation. We recognize recent bilateral innovation in commercial space launch and are committed to further strengthening bilateral commercial space cooperation, including in the field of deep space communications. We are committed to taking tangible steps to deepen our collaboration on space sustainability and our respective regulations. The United States welcomes the close partnership with the United Kingdom on heliophysics missions and the United Kingdom’s contribution to the NASA Helioswarm mission in particular. The United States welcomes potential participation by the United Kingdom in future commercial space station concepts. The United States and the United Kingdom are committed to studying opportunities for cooperation on space nuclear power and propulsion in accordance with their respective domestic laws and consistent with international obligations and commitments.

VIA:The White House


21世纪美英经济伙伴关系大西洋宣言

今天,美国和英国宣布了《21世纪美英经济伙伴关系大西洋宣言》,以确保我们独特的联盟得到调整、加强和重新构建,以应对当前的挑战。

上个世纪以来,美国和英国之间的重要伙伴关系使我们能够在具有全球重要性的问题上共同发挥领导作用。自1941年签署《大西洋宪章》以来,我们共同努力,在我们对共同价值观的持久支持的基础上,建立了一个开放和基于规则的国际秩序。在2021年签署的《新大西洋宪章》中,我们强调并更新了这一愿景。我们还共同设计了一个国际经济架构,该架构支撑了我们的经济实力,并帮助世界各地数百万人到数亿人摆脱了贫困。我们重要的双边关系以在国防和安全方面最密切的合作、繁荣的经济关系、在科学和技术方面的领导地位以及我们人民与民间社会之间的深厚联系为基础。

今天,无论是在国际上,还是为了我们国内人民的安全与繁荣,美英合作和共同领导都一如既往地至关重要。为了实现这一目标,我们必须跟上我们周围世界的变化,并使我们的联盟适应这些变化。全球经济正在经历工业革命以来最大的变革之一。如果我们能够利用创新的突破来支持而不是反对我们的民主和安全,那么创新的突破将提供巨大的潜力。向未来清洁能源经济的过渡是一个改善就业和生计以及深化我们经济韧性的机会。与此同时,国家安全的性质正在发生变化。技术、经济和国家安全比以往任何时候都更加紧密地交织在一起。我们面临着国际稳定的新挑战——来自俄罗斯和中华人民共和国等国家;颠覆性技术;非国家行为者;以及气候变化等跨国挑战。

在过去的一年里,我们采取措施深化我们在全球每个合作地区无与伦比的防御、安全和情报关系,认识到欧洲-大西洋、印度-太平洋和其他地区安全的不可分割性。我们激发了传统联盟的活力,并在技术、贸易和安全领域更深入合作的基础上建立了新的创新伙伴关系。面对俄罗斯非法、无理和无端的侵略战争,我们肩并肩地决心支持乌克兰,并维护一个自由、独立和主权的乌克兰。我们致力于继续加强北约的能力,以阻止进一步破坏联盟安全的企图,支持北约的新战略概念。

我们已经采取了重大措施来实施AUKUS,包括宣布我们的计划,支持澳大利亚获得常规武装核动力潜艇。通过我们在印太地区的深入参与,我们比以往任何时候都更紧密地与我们的合作伙伴合作,以支持一个自由开放的地区。通过美英印太对话,我们将继续寻找新的机会来协调我们的方法,支持东盟和东盟的中心地位,与太平洋岛屿合作,在经济和技术进步方面进行协调,并为地区和平与稳定做出贡献,包括通过AUKUS和扩大的联合演习和规划,包括三边合作。

今天,我们宣布了《21世纪美英经济伙伴关系大西洋宣言》,以建立经济领域的伙伴关系。美国和英国决心合作,建立有弹性、多样化和安全的供应链,减少战略依赖。我们仍然致力于继续在未来的技术方面发挥领导作用,并在我们的经济安全和技术保护工具方面推进尽可能密切的协调,以确保新兴技术对我们的民主和安全有利,而不是不利。作为民主和开放的社会,我们决心共同努力,确保我们国家和人民的安全、繁荣和保障,同时推动世界各地生活水平的提高。

《大西洋宣言》及其《行动计划》构成了我们经济、技术、商业和贸易关系各个领域新型创新伙伴关系的基础;这是第一次,需要我们的共同领导和想象力才能充分实现。

它将构成一个新的经济安全框架,涵盖在关键和新兴技术以及更强大的保护工具方面更加密切的合作。它将支持美国和英国努力利用能源转型和技术突破来推动广泛的共同增长,创造良好的就业机会,不让任何社区掉队。它将探讨如何深化我们的贸易和投资关系。它将加强我们在国防、科学、卫生安全和太空领域的联盟,使我们能够探索在其他领域加强合作,以实现共同的经济利益。

这些都是我们这个时代紧迫的经济问题。这些问题要求美国和英国共同领导。

21世纪美英经济伙伴关系行动计划(ADAPT)

长期以来,美国和英国之间深厚的经济联系一直是双方力量的源泉。美英双边投资关系是世界上最大的双边投资关系,拥有超过1.5万亿美元的存量,为两国提供了270多万个就业机会。随着我们发展我们无与伦比的经济关系以反映当今的挑战,我们有机会展示21世纪经济伙伴关系应该是什么样子。美国和英国可以共同领导建立一种新形式的经济伙伴关系,促进经济增长和竞争力,建设能力、韧性和包容性,并为我们的工人和社区服务;为我们的企业工作;为我们的气候工作;并为我们的国家安全工作。

作为这一新伙伴关系的第一步,我们今天宣布并采取具体和协调的行动,通过以下五个支柱深化这一伙伴关系:

  • 确保美国和英国在关键和新兴技术方面的领先地位,
  • 推动我们在经济安全和技术保护工具和供应链方面的更密切合作,
  • 就包容性和负责任的数字化转型开展合作,
  • 建设未来的清洁能源经济,以及
  • 进一步加强我们在国防、卫生安全和太空领域的联盟。

白宫和唐宁街的高级代表将根据《大西洋宣言行动计划》(ADAPT)每年召开两次会议,以制定和推动《大西洋宣言》行动计划的具体进展,并确保在未来几个月和几年内取得成效。

1. 确保美国和英国在关键和新兴技术方面的领先地位

少数关键和新兴技术正在形成新产业的支柱,并塑造我们的国家安全格局。这些技术包括半导体、量子技术、人工智能、尖端电信和合成生物。作为世界领先公司和学术机构的所在地,我们致力于确保美国和英国在这些领域继续处于领先地位。我们打算通过在具体的研究和开发方面进行合作来做到这一点, 深化关于我们优先技术的公共和私营部门之间沟通合作,共同动员私人资本用于战略技术,并通过改善人才的相互流动, 这些长期举措是长期伙伴关系的初步步骤,将纳入现有的美英框架,包括《美英科学技术合作协议》、《美英技术和数据全面对话》以及其他适用的平台,我们将通过这些平台制定并实施一项关于关键和新兴技术的共同工作计划,将在未来12个月内予以更新和推进。

  • 启动关于优先技术的合作工作。我们打算探索在一系列关键和新兴技术方面的共同努力和合作研发,并开展一系列初步活动,包括以下活动:
    • 推行一系列量子技术举措,以解决量子科学的基础研究问题,并采取其他举措,减少美英合作的障碍,如增加研究人员和学生的流动性,探索劳动力发展活动,促进人员和创意的交流。
    • 通过制定共同愿景,推进联合研发项目,深化创新5G和6G解决方案的技术活动合作,包括更雄心勃勃的合作,巩固美国和英国在尖端电信领域的领导地位。加快开放式无线接入网络(RAN)推向市场,提高关键供应链的多样性和弹性。
    • 深化合成生物学合作,以期达成一项联合工作计划,通过改善生物制造和生物技术的供应链途径,推动公私合作、交流和联合研究,开发新的应用,促进我们的经济安全。
    • 从未来12个月开始,探索支持先进半导体技术的领域的合作研发,如先进材料和化合物半导体,并促进我们国家研究机构之间的合作。
    • 加快我们在人工智能方面的合作,重点是确保该技术的安全和负责任的发展。
  • 调动私人资本用于战略性技术。我们打算支持两国公司在这些关键和新兴技术方面的发展。我们打算共同努力,吸引私人资本,以确保这些领域的公司有能力脱颖而出并扩大规模。为此,我们承诺在未来12个月内成立美英战略技术投资者委员会。我们将利用这个新成立的委员会,将大西洋两岸的主要投资者与国家安全专家聚集在一起,分析目前存在的资金缺口,并释放关键和新兴技术的新的私人投资。
  • 促进人才的相互流动。我们认识到我们的技术部门需要一支熟练的劳动力队伍。作为实现这一目标的一部分,我们利用公共部门、行业和学术界的专业知识,就如何最好地改善美英人才流动提供建议。美国欢迎英国提供资金,扩大马歇尔和富布赖特奖学金,重点是科学、技术、工程和数学科目,以深化我们两国之间广泛的人才交流。

2. 推进技术保护、经济安全工具包和供应链等领域更加紧密的合作。

我们的许多技术保护工具都是为不同的时代、不同的威胁和不同的技术而设计的。我们认识到,我们目前与出口管制、投资筛选、制裁以及研发安全有关的监管框架是必不可少的工具,应与不断变化的地缘战略和技术环境相适应。我们打算采取具体步骤,在所有这些领域更新和更密切地调整我们各自的工具包,以防止敏感和(军民)两用的新兴技术以及其他出口管制商品和技术的泄漏。我们将努力加强与政策和情报界相关利益攸关方关于威胁信息的信息共享机制,包括深化我们在投资安全方面的合作。

  • 应对某些类型的对外投资带来的国家安全风险。作为拥有密切和长期防务伙伴关系的盟友,以及关键和新兴技术的全球领导者,我们有一个共同的目标,那就是防止我们公司的资本和专业知识推动技术进步,从而提高相关国家的军事和情报能力。我们正在采取步骤,确保我们各自的工具包足以实现我们的共同目标。美国正在努力制定一套有针对性的控制措施,以控制与核心国家安全关系密切的敏感技术的对外投资。英国打算通过迅速与一系列商业和金融利益相关者接触来补充这一点,以建立一个证据库,评估并告知英国如何最好地调整其行动,以有效应对这些风险并实现我们的共同目标。当我们根据各自的时间表采取行动时,我们将与私营部门就我们在这一领域的共同决心和共同目标进行明确沟通。
  • 确保灵活和协调的出口管制。在技术格局迅速变化和日益复杂的背景下,我们的工具包必须应对不断演变的挑战。因此,我们将共同努力,使我们各自的工具包能够以互补的方式发挥作用,实施与某些敏感技术有关的出口管制,包括针对令人关切的最终用途,并考虑我们应对无形转让挑战的方法。英国通过扩大其军事最终用途管制制度的范围,增强了其在这一领域的能力,并正在推进工作——预计将于秋季完成——以了解其影响。英国将在今年晚些时候就更新其出口管制制度进行磋商,并考虑如何最好地灵活和迅速地处理敏感技术转让问题。英国还将就关注的最终用途和最终用户的目标进行协商。在我们现有合作的基础上,认识到多边体系在适应新的现实方面面临挑战,创造性的解决方案是必要的,双方将在未来几个月双边磋商推进工作,以实现更深入的合作,并确保我们的两个出口管制体系能够共同应对已确定的威胁。
  • 加强我们在制裁战略、设计、瞄准、实施和执行方面的世界领先伙伴关系。我们将继续协调我们的工作,解决逃避制裁的问题,并打算共同打击那些为俄罗斯在俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和第三国非法入侵乌克兰提供便利的人,包括那些帮助俄罗斯获得支持俄罗斯侵略的商品和技术的人。我们打算增强从我们的金融机构和企业收集、分析和共享与金融制裁有关的信息和数据的能力,包括识别在财务上支持或促进向俄罗斯战争机器付款的公司和个人。我们还打算密切合作,在我们就具有里程碑意义的联合国安理会第2664号决议进行重大合作的基础上,保护人道主义活动免受制裁的意外影响。我们在联合国项目中实施了人道主义活动的例外情况。美国在其自主制裁计划中实施了这些例外情况,英国将酌情在其自主的制裁计划中进一步采取这一措施。我们还将继续共同努力,强调粮食供应不是我们制裁的目标。
  • 减少我们在关键技术供应链中的脆弱性。最近的事件表明,我们的供应链需要更能抵御地缘政治事件、自然灾害、第三国政策、经济胁迫和其他可能的冲击。英国和美国认识到建立有弹性的半导体和其他关键技术供应链的战略和共同必要性,并正在制定强有力的战略,最大限度地减少中断。为了进一步推进这一合作,美国和英国将通过双边合作,在关键技术供应链中断和危机期间分享分析、发展和深化我们的协调和及时协商渠道。

3. 合作实现包容性和负责任的数字化转型

在我们促进各国关键和新兴技术生态系统的同时,我们将共同努力,围绕技术塑造政策环境,并促进进一步负责任的创新。

  • 加强数据合作。可信和安全的数据跨境流动是进一步创新的基础。为此,我们原则上承诺建立一个美英数据桥,以促进我们国家之间的数据流动,同时确保强有力和有效的隐私保护。我们正在努力迅速完成各自的评估,以执行这一框架。我们还打算进行协调,进一步促进对数字经济的信任,包括支持全球跨境隐私规则平台和经合组织关于政府获取私营部门实体持有的个人数据的宣言,并就数据安全风险建立共识。
  • 加快人工智能合作。美国和英国认识到人工智能有潜力改变我们的社会和经济,并共同致力于政府行动的作用,以释放这些技术快速发展带来的机遇和减轻风险。我们将加快在人工智能方面的合作,重点是确保该技术的安全和负责任的发展。两国都欢迎正在进行的国际活动,包括经合组织、联合国、全球人工智能伙伴关系、欧洲委员会和国际标准组织,以及七国集团广岛人工智能进程,并认识到有必要更进一步,特别是在人工智能带来的风险和机遇方面。美国欢迎首相计划于今年在英国主办第一届人工智能安全全球峰会,并承诺高级别出席。这项努力符合英国对人工智能风险和机遇的全面、平衡的方法,将汇集关键国家以及领先的科技公司和研究人员,推动有针对性的快速国际行动,重点关注这项技术前沿的安全保障,包括探索评估和监测人工智能风险的安全措施。美国已采取强有力的行动促进负责任的创新,并正在推进一个进程,以推进应对人工智能相关风险和机遇的全面方法,包括与公司、研究、民间社会以及我们的盟友和合作伙伴的全面接触。
  • 深化隐私保护技术方面的合作。为了最大限度地负责任地使用数据,我们打算发起隐私保护技术合作(PETs),这将使我们能够从数据中获得更有价值的见解,并培训负责任的人工智能模型,实现经济和社会效益,同时保护个人隐私和我们的民主原则。

4. 建设未来的清洁能源经济

美国和英国都致力于实现我们在《巴黎协定》下的目标,建设清洁能源经济,加强有弹性的供应链,并投资于我们的工业基地。我们都相信,建设清洁能源经济是以高劳动标准创造良好就业机会的最重要机会之一。我们申明,大胆投资和战略性公共资金对于实现这些目标是必要的。我们致力于深化合作,发展和加强清洁能源供应链,包括建立多样化、有弹性和安全的关键矿产和电池供应链,减少不必要的战略依赖,以实现我们的国防、经济、能源安全和气候目标。在我们实施国家战略的过程中,我们将尽可能调整我们的方法,使所有国家都能负担得起清洁能源技术,并帮助推动工人和社区实现全球、公正和安全的能源转型,不让任何人掉队。我们致力于使2020年代成为气候行动的决定性十年,根据《巴黎协定》实施我们各自雄心勃勃的2030年国家自主贡献,并实现我们2050年的净零排放目标。

  • 启动关键矿产协议谈判。经过国会协商,我们打算立即开始就一项有针对性的关键矿物协议进行谈判,该协议涵盖对电动汽车最重要的五种相关关键矿物——钴、石墨、锂、锰,以及镍——在英国提取或加工的产品计入符合《通胀削减法案》第30D条清洁汽车税收抵免条件的清洁汽车的采购要求。我们打算利用这些重点谈判来确保我们在供应链多元化以及强有力的劳工和环境标准方面的方法的一致性,以支持创造高薪工作岗位,并自由、公平地选择加入大西洋两岸的工会。通过我们强大的美英伙伴关系,我们将努力提高各自和集体的清洁能源工业能力,促进电动汽车的生产和部署,并扩大获得可持续、安全、高标准的关键矿物和电池供应链的机会。
  • 合作制定联合清洁能源供应链行动计划。今天,我们宣布启动为期一年的联合清洁能源供应链行动计划。通过美英能源安全和可负担性联合行动小组(JAG),美国和英国将在2023年底前确定并决定我们两国可以并行和共同采取的近期行动,以加快我们国家和第三国的能力建设,足以满足未来的清洁能源需求。我们打算在包括海上风电和电动汽车电池在内的关键清洁能源供应链上进行公私磋商,并在关键清洁能源供给链上进行快速压力测试,这可能会为未来的供应链弹性工作奠定基础。
  • 启动民用核伙伴关系。在我们独特的经济和安全关系的基础上,并认识到我们的互补能力,我们正在启动由两国政府高级官员监督的民用核伙伴关系。JAG还将被动员起来,为联合行动制定近期优先事项,以鼓励到2030年在两大洲建立新的基础设施和端到端的燃料循环能力,并大大减少对俄罗斯燃料、供应和服务的依赖。我们的共同活动和领导将支持和促进先进、和平的核技术的安全、可靠和可持续的国际部署,包括小型模块化反应堆,符合最高的不扩散标准,并符合全球变暖1.5摄氏度的限制。这些优先事项将构成核能合作联合常设委员会的基础,该委员会旨在年底前履行共同承诺,并作为一个持久的双边平台,推动现有参与机制的共同政策目标,包括通过联合执行小组确定的近期行动,促进就核能方面新的和不断发展的技术和政策发展进行交流。

5. 加强我们在国防、卫生安全和太空领域的联盟

我们正在进一步加强美英在新兴领域的联盟,这些领域对经济韧性和经济安全具有关键意义。

  • 继续优化我们长期的防务合作。我们继续优化我们长期的国防合作,确保我们两国之间的国防和技术贸易以及出口尽可能无摩擦,特别是作为我们实现AUKUS国家内部和之间合作的努力的一部分。为此,总统计划要求美国国会增加英国作为《国防生产法》第三章意义上的“国内来源”。这样做将深化工业基础合作,加快和加强AUKUS的实施,为美国在多个战略部门的投资创造新的机会,并支持我们努力提高清洁能源和关键技术部门各自和集体的工业能力。美国和英国正在共同采取措施简化两国之间的国防贸易,包括美国向国会提出的使出口管制法现代化的建议,以加强AUKUS国家之间的合作。英国也在审查其出口管制制度,以简化AUKUS伙伴之间的国防贸易流动。
  • 加强生物和卫生安全方面的双边合作。在《新大西洋宪章》的基础上,我们致力于加强两国在生物安全方面的双边合作,反映出我们共同的雄心,即加强未来的健康和经济抵御日益增长的各种生物威胁(蓄意、意外或自然),包括抗药性感染。为此,我们将加强合作,克服阻止重要研究的市场失灵,以及抗微生物疫苗的开发,治疗方法,以及诊断——通过对抗抗生素耐药性细菌生物制药加速器(CARB-X)等机制。我们将加强在应对新出现的具有大流行或流行病潜力的传染病威胁方面的合作,促进国内外生物技术和生命科学领域的生物安全、生物安保和负责任的创新,以充分发挥不断增长的生物经济的潜力。我们重申致力于加强反对滥用生物的全球规范和禁止发展生物武器。
  • 展望未来,深化我们在空间合作各领域的伙伴关系。我们认识到最近双边在商业航天发射方面的创新,并致力于进一步加强双边商业航天合作,包括在深空通信领域的合作。我们致力于采取切实步骤,深化我们在空间可持续性和各自法规方面的合作。美国欢迎与英国在太阳系飞行任务方面的密切伙伴关系,特别是英国对美国航空航天局(NASA)太阳系飞行任务的贡献。美国欢迎英国参与未来的商业空间站。美国和英国致力于根据各自国内法并根据国际义务和承诺,研究在空间核动力和推进方面开展合作的机会。