Stefan Mileschin

Trump's China embargo us hurts too much

Donald Trump’s trade war against China is finding opposition among the US’s chipmakers.

Industry groups are pushing back on proposed changes to US export controls that would impact the sale of certain semiconductors and other technology to China.

In a letter sent on Monday, nine groups urged US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to allow public comment before putting the rules into effect to avoid unintended consequences.

The changes may “result in significant impacts to the semiconductor industry, its global supply chain, and the broader technology sector”, said the letter, signed by the Semiconductor Industry Association and the National Foreign Trade Council, SEMI, and six other groups.

The letter warns that semiconductors drive the functionality in advanced medical equipment used by health professionals to treat the public and enable telework.

Senior US officials agreed on new ways to control high-tech exports to China which are aimed at preventing China from obtaining advanced US technology for commercial purposes and diverting it to military use.

The plan is that foreign companies that use US chipmaking equipment to obtain licenses before supplying certain chips to China’s Huawei Technologies.

Ajit Manocha, president of SEMI, which represents the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing supply chain, sent another letter on Friday to President Donald Trump saying the change would harm US exports of chipmaking equipment, which bring in over $20 billion a year.
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