Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced a resolution Nov. 6 calling for the U.S. government to continue denying China access to advanced chips and chipmaking equipment to maintain the American advantage in AI.
Eight Republican senators told President Donald Trump on Nov. 6 that they applaud his decision to withhold the most advanced U.S. computing chips from China, including Nvidia’s Blackwell (see 2511030031).
Five Senate Democrats led by Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., urged the Treasury Department Nov. 5 to provide more information about how it is implementing new restrictions on U.S. outbound investment in China.
Allowing Nvidia to sell its B30A chip to China would undermine the Trump administration’s export control strategy and broader technology policy goals, researchers with the Institute for Progress think tank said this week.
The U.S. should drop tariffs on EU steel from 50% to 15% and suspend Section 232 investigations targeting EU products as part of the two sides' trade framework announced in August (see 2508200052), said Bernd Lange, the chair of the EU Parliament’s Committee on International Trade. He also said the EU should work in a sunset provision that would end the agreement if the two sides haven’t made progress in 18 months.
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The U.S. government’s failure to cripple Huawei through export controls shows that it needs a different strategy to counter foreign threats to American technology competitiveness, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation said in a new report last week. Although the U.S. should still use export controls in certain situations, they should always be applied with allies and used sparingly so as not to use up America’s “technology capital,” the think tank said.
The EU this week published its fifth annual report on the implementation and enforcement of EU trade policy, outlining steps that the bloc has taken to remove trade barriers, the status of various trade agreements, trade trends from the past year, and more.
The Democratic minority on the House Select Committee on China said in a new report Nov. 4 that the U.S. and its allies should strengthen their export controls to prevent China from using their technology for repression.
The U.S. should ensure its export controls are not so restrictive that they harm the ability of American computing chip manufacturers to compete internationally, Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Ga., said this week.