Loading ...US & Japan Nearing ‘Breakthrough’ Deal To Restrict Chip Tech Exports To China
“Negotiations have centered on aligning the three countries’ export control rules so Japanese and Dutch companies will not be subject to the FDPR, which one person in the Netherlands described as a “diplomatic bomb.””
A new report from the Financial Times details how US and Japanese officials are nearing a deal to curb tech exports to China’s chip industry. This comes two weeks after Beijing threatened severe economic retaliation against Tokyo if it proceeded with new chip export curbs.
FT spoke with insiders who said US and Japanese officials are nearing a ‘breakthrough’ in talks to coordinate new export controls against China’s chip industry. The curbs would target non-US companies, forcing them to obtain licenses to sell products directly to Chinese companies that directly or indirectly connect to the nation’s chip industry.
The new trade restrictions would close loopholes in existing rules and add additional restrictions at a time when Huawei and other Chinese firms have managed to circumnavigate Western chip trade restrictions in recent years.
One of Washington’s primary objectives is to make it much more challenging for Chinese firms to acquire critical chipmaking tools, such as those from ASML in the Netherlands and Tokyo Electron in Japan.