Senate Bill Proposes Export Controls on Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment
Legislation from Senate Foreign Affairs Chairman Bob Menendez, D-N.J., would direct the administration to impose export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and asks that the government "develop a strategy to diplomatically engage the governments of the Netherlands, Japan, and other…
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appropriate countries ... to formulate export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment" so that China couldn't purchase the equipment. The Economic Statecraft for the Twenty-First Century Act's text was published May 6. The bill also directs the administration to review the economic, diplomatic and security effects of implementing export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and how such a policy would affect China's semiconductor industry.