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

               By the authority vested in me as President by the 
               Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
               America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, 
               as amended (50 U.S.C. 4501 et seq.) (the ``Act''), and 
               section 301 of title 3, United States Code, it is 
               hereby ordered:

               Section 1. Policy and Findings. 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.

               Elemental phosphorus is also a critical precursor 
               element for the production of glyphosate-based 
               herbicides, which play a critical role in maintaining 
               America's agricultural advantage by enabling farmers to 
               efficiently and cost-effectively produce food and 
               livestock feed. As the most widely used crop protection 
               tools in United States agriculture, glyphosate-based 
               herbicides are a cornerstone of this Nation's 
               agricultural productivity and rural economy, allowing 
               United States farmers and ranchers to maintain high 
               yields and low production costs while ensuring that 
               healthy, affordable food options remain within reach 
               for all American families.

               There is no direct one-for-one chemical alternative to 
               glyphosate-based herbicides. Lack of access to 
               glyphosate-based herbicides would critically jeopardize 
               agricultural productivity, adding pressure to the 
               domestic food system, and may result in a transition of 
               cropland to other uses due to low productivity. Given 
               the profit margins growers currently face, any major 
               restrictions in access to glyphosate-based herbicides 
               would result in economic losses for growers and make it 
               untenable for them to meet growing food and feed 
               demands.

               Ensuring an adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and 
               glyphosate-based herbicides is thus crucial to the 
               national security and defense, including food-supply 
               security, which is essential to protecting the health 
               and safety of Americans. Nonetheless, the United 
               States' ability to domestically produce those critical 
               inputs is extremely limited. Indeed, there is only a 
               single domestic producer of elemental phosphorus and 
               glyphosate-based herbicides, and this producer does not 
               meet our annual needs for those inputs. For that 
               reason, more than 6,000,000 kilograms of elemental 
               phosphorus are imported from other countries annually. 
               Future reduction or the cessation of domestic 
               production of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based 
               herbicides would gravely threaten American national 
               security by disrupting, and requiring the further 
               offshoring of, this Nation's defense supply chain 
               including by having a debilitating impact on domestic 
               agricultural capabilities.

               I accordingly find that, consistent with the Department 
               of the Interior's designation, elemental phosphorus is 
               a scarce material that is critical to
               national defense and security. Our Nation's inadequate 
               elemental phosphorus production, which must sustain 
               both defense manufacturing and our significant 
               agricultural needs, and the threat of increased 
               domestic scarcity leave us vulnerable to hostile 
               foreign actors and pose an imminent threat to military 
               readiness.

               Consistent with these findings, I find that ensuring 
               robust domestic elemental phosphorus mining and United 
               States-based production of glyphosate-based herbicides 
               is central to American economic and national security. 
               Without immediate Federal action, the United States 
               remains inadequately equipped and vulnerable. 
               Accordingly, I hereby find, pursuant to section 101 of 
               the Act, that domestic elemental phosphorus and 
               glyphosate-based herbicides meet the criteria specified 
               in section 101(b) of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511(b)).

               Sec. 2. Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental 
               Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides. (a) 
               Notwithstanding Executive Order 13603 of March 16, 2012 
               (National Defense Resources Preparedness), the 
               authority of the President conferred by section 101 of 
               the Act to require performance of contracts or orders 
               (other than contracts of employment) to promote the 
               national defense over performance of any other 
               contracts or orders, to allocate materials, services, 
               and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate to 
               promote the national defense, and to implement the Act 
               in subchapter III of chapter 55 of title 50, United 
               States Code (50 U.S.C. 4554, 4555, 4556, 4559, 4560), 
               is delegated to the Secretary of Agriculture 
               (Secretary) with respect to ensuring a continued and 
               adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-
               based herbicides.

                   (b) The Secretary shall use the authority under 
               section 101 of the Act (50 U.S.C. 4511), in 
               consultation with the Secretary of War, to determine 
               the proper nationwide priorities and allocation of all 
               the materials, services, and facilities necessary to 
               ensure a continued and adequate supply of elemental 
               phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides.
                   (c) The Secretary shall issue such orders and adopt 
               and revise appropriate rules and regulations as may be 
               necessary to implement this order.
                   (d) In exercising the authority delegated in this 
               section, the Secretary shall take into account the 
               President's judgment that domestic production of 
               elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides is 
               critical to the national defense. Accordingly, the 
               Secretary shall ensure that any order, rule, or 
               regulation issued under this section does not place the 
               corporate viability of any domestic producer of 
               elemental phosphorus or glyphosate-based herbicides at 
               risk.

               Sec. 3. Immunity. This order confers all immunity 
               provided for in section 707 of the Act (50 U.S.C. 
               4557). Additionally, domestic producers of elemental 
               phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides are required 
               to comply with this order, in accordance with the 
               provisions of 7 CFR part 789.

               Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
               shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                   (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
               applicable law and subject to the availability of 
               appropriations.
                   (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
               create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
               enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
               the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
               entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
               other person.
                   (d) The costs for publication of this order shall 
               be borne by the Department of Agriculture.
                              
                 DONALD J. TRUMP

               THE WHITE HOUSE,

                   February 18, 2026.