Addressing Security Risks From Price Fixing and Anti-Competitive Behavior in the Food Supply Chain

Executive Order 14364 is an executive action signed by President (name not specified in the text) that orders investigations into anti-competitive behavior and foreign control in U.S. food supply chains (Sec. 1; Sec. 2(a)). The Attorney General (head of the Department of Justice (DOJ)) and the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) must each set up a Food Supply Chain Security Task Force to investigate and remedy problems, including enforcement and proposing regulatory approaches (Sec. 2(a)). The Task Forces must brief congressional leaders once within 180 days and again within 365 days about progress, while withholding ongoing-investigation details (Sec. 2(b)). This matters because the order aims to find and fix practices that the text says may raise food costs or threaten national security (Sec. 1).