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The head of the House Select Committee on China urged the Trump administration Aug. 25 to adopt a new framework for restricting computing chip exports to China, saying placing certain technical limits on such sales would be a more effective way to keep Beijing’s AI capabilities in check.
The State Department is finalizing changes from a January rule that will add and remove items on the U.S. Munitions List and clarify the control scope of others. It said some new items should be subject to export controls under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, while others “no longer warrant inclusion” or will soon be moved to the Commerce Department’s Commerce Control List. The agency will also create a new license exemption for underwater drones and tweak other portions of the January rule, but it declined to make multiple changes requested by exporters.
President Donald Trump threatened to impose export controls on technology and semiconductors if countries have digital policies he dislikes.
Delisting decisions at the Office of Foreign Assets Control are increasingly being driven by outside voices, leading to removals that lack transparency and interagency discussion, a former OFAC official said.
Three House Democrats introduced a bill Aug. 22 that would require Congress, not just the executive branch, to approve the sale of certain advanced AI chips to China.
The Trump administration is likely still working out how to implement its supposed revenue-sharing chip export deal with Nvidia, including whether the agreement is allowed under U.S. law, a former U.S. diplomat said.
The EU will buy at least $40 billion worth of advanced American AI chips, will strengthen cooperation on export controls and investment screening, and will eliminate tariffs on U.S. industrial and other goods, the two sides said as part of a trade framework announced this week. The EU also committed to "substantially” increase purchases of U.S. defense equipment and said it will work to limit adverse effects of new supply chain due diligence rules and carbon border taxes on U.S. exporters.
The U.S., the EU and others should pursue tougher enforcement on Chinese companies that continue to supply Russia’s military industrial complex and continue to buy Russian oil, panelists said during an event this week hosted by the Peterson Institute for International Economics. One said the EU should consider automatically sanctioning any Chinese company whose products are found more than once in drones, missiles or other military items used by Russia.
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