[2] On May 27, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared Hong Kong "no longer autonomous", putting its special designation into doubt,[3] which in turn eliminated the special treatment for Hong Kong with the Executive Order 13936.

[5] Executive Order 13936 normalization for Hong Kong on par with mainland China was also signed into effect the same day.

[4] The act states that Hong Kong maintains its own export control system as long as it adapts to international standards.

[1] In the run-up to the handover of Hong Kong, former Senator Jesse Helms (then chairman of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee and a supporter of the Act) wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal of the benefits that the act had for relations between Hong Kong and the United States.

[7] Beijing criticized the act, describing it as foreign interference into the domestic affairs of the PRC.