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Netherlands refuses to summarily agree to US export restrictions on China over silicon chips.:
The United States of America has requested a number of countries in Europe and Asia to impose sanctions on Chinese chip manufacturing firms. One of these, the Netherlands, has come out and put a statement saying that they will not summarily accept new US restrictions on exporting chip-making technology to China, and is consulting with European and Asian allies.
The Dutch Trade Minister Liesje Schreinemacher on Sunday said that he expects the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to discuss export policy with President Joe Biden when Prime Minister Rutte visits the US.
In effect though, the Netherlands has stopped ASML Holding from shipping its most advanced machines to China and is only allowing them to sell machinery and technology that were made before 2019.
The Dutch government has denied ASML permission to ship its most advanced machines to China since 2019 following a pressure campaign by the Trump administration, but ASML did sell 2 billion euros worth of older machines to China in 2021.
The US took action in October to limit China's capacity to produce its own chips, and US trade officials stated at the time that they anticipated the Netherlands and Japan to follow suit soon. ASML has said that should the rules proposed by the US come into play, it could impact roughly 5 per cent of its group sales.
Previously: Dutch Chip Equipment Maker ASML's CEO Questions U.S. Export Rules on China
(Score: 3, Interesting) by pvanhoof on Friday January 20, @06:39PM
Exactly this. ASML in Eindhoven already can't follow with the orders for just the markets that it currently is allowed to export hardware to. The US can surely work around the Dutch government not wanting to ban ASML to sell hardware to for example China, by simply buying up all the hardware ASML can produce.
Then the US has both what it wants: China has no hardware, and the US has all the chip manufacturing within its borders.
So please stop being little people who try to make its allies adhere to its own self imposed trade wars. Buy all the machines. Or shut up.
Either way. China will replicate the technology within a handful of years. After which the US will be behind anyway. Why isn't the US developing its own mirrors and lenses? Because a ASML machine is basically a whole lot of Carl Zeiss lenses and/or mirrors (with a light source developed in the US).