On the face of it, it sounds like it is limited to a "we-shouldn't-be-doing-business-with-China" sort of issue.
In which event, perhaps that ought to be a matter of law pertaining to all of our commercial endeavors with China.
Wonder how that would suit Pelosi, the McConnell family and the Biden team?
I wrote the original instruction to keep foreign made krap out of our submarines. I assume they still read it and do it. Guess I should have sent a copy to the Air Farce. How hard is it to not buy stupid stuff from a guy you don’t know? Maybe we should paint a small chicom courtesy flag on our F35’s? Back in the day the federal stock system didn’t include country-of-origin on its stock numbers. Maybe they fixed that by now? It’s only been a half century?
Just guessing here but having worked at Honeywell and having been involved in a similar incident I can, perhaps, shed some light. Honeywell buys an assembly from Lighting X. Lightning X builds the assembly to their own specification, which Honeywell used in specifying that assembly. Not listed in Lightning X’s drawing are several parts that Lighting X could source from multiple vendors. They got a better deal from Jing Jong than from Wilmington Magnetics on a framis. Honeywell then did something that required them to disassemble Lighting X’s assembly. This is where they found the part made in China.