Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, is asking Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to tell him whether allied governments were consulted before the White House announced that chip exports from Nexperia's China factory would resume, suggesting that the EU was caught flat-footed at the development. Nexperia makes semiconductors used in automobiles.
Although the U.S. has had “limited success” in coordinating foreign investment screening with the EU, partly due to a lack of consensus among the bloc’s member states, recent developments suggest that the U.S. should try again, the Atlantic Council said in a new report on China policy.
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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Nov. 6 introduced as a stand-alone bill his proposal to require U.S. manufacturers of advanced AI chips to make their products available to American firms before selling them to U.S. arms embargoed countries. The measure was referred to the Senate Banking Committee. His proposal was included as an amendment to the Senate-passed FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, but it's unclear if it will make it into the final version amid opposition from the U.S. semiconductor industry (see 2509050056 and 2510240052).
Reps. Sydney Kamlager-Dove, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia, which oversees the Bureau of Industry and Security, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., ranking member of the House Select Committee on China, introduced a bill Nov. 7 that would prohibit the executive branch from charging fees for export licenses.
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.