By Dan Strumpf The Trump administration is adding China s largest manufacturer of computing chips to an export blacklist, restricting the company s access to high-end technology over its alleged links it to the Chinese military. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., or SMIC, will be added alongside more than 60 other Chinese institutions to the entity list, the Commerce Department said. The designation restricts companies from exporting U.S.-origin technology to the listed firms without a license, with a provision that effectively prohibits SMIC from acquiring technology to build chips with 10-nanometer circuits and smaller, the industry s top class of chips. The move raises the pressure significantly on the chip maker, a national champion that has received billions of dollars in state backing and is central to Beijing s drive to improve the country s self-sufficiency in critical technologies. It comes during the waning weeks of the Trump administratio
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The move, which has not previously been reported, is seen as the latest in President Donald Trump s effort to cement his tough-on-China legacy. It comes just weeks before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office on Jan. 20.
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SMIC has repeatedly said that it has no relationship with the Chinese military.
The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
The move, which has not previously been reported, is seen as the latest in President Donald Trump s effort to cement his tough-on-China legacy. It comes just weeks before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office on Jan. 20.
US to blacklist dozens of Chinese firms including SMIC
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In total, the US is expected to add around 80 additional companies and affiliates to the so-called entity list, nearly all of them Chinese.
The United States is set to add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country’s top chipmaker SMIC, to a trade blacklist on Friday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.
The move, which has not previously been reported, is seen as the latest in President Donald Trump’s effort to cement his tough-on-China legacy. It comes just weeks before Democratic President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office on Jan. 20.
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Chinese Computer Chip Giant Caught In Export Clampdown
Law360 (December 18, 2020, 5:02 PM EST) The U.S. Department of Commerce announced new export restrictions on 77 foreign entities on Friday, including Chinese computer chip giant Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., known as SMIC, for their connection to human rights abuses and military aggression by China.
Sixty of the organizations and individuals added to the commercial blacklist are based in China. They are being targeted for enforcement for reasons including providing support for China s military-civil fusion policy, supporting human rights violations committed by the Chinese government against its own people, and for their roles in expanding China s military presence in the South and East China Seas, senior Commerce.
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