Last week, the Dutch government updated its export control rules governing advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. This decision expands the scope of the national export control measures first introduced in 2023.

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) placed additional Chinese entities on the Entity List, through two separate actions, on the basis of "activities contrary to U.S. national security and foreign policy interests."

China’s Ministry of Commerce provided some updates on several trade remedy cases in recent weeks. In addition, there is an indication that it may start trade remedy investigations on U.S. chips.

China has recently updated its WTO consultations request with the U.S. over the export control regime for semiconductors, broadening the scope of the consultations to cover more recent measures that expand the regime.

Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce published an interim final rule governing exports of chips used in artificial intelligence. The rule has already drawn criticism from Beijing and some domestic players.

In late December, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office started an investigation into Chinese policies and practices that it said were designed to "dominate domestic and global markets in the semiconductor industry," focusing on foundational semiconductors and silicon carbide substrates (or other wafers used as inputs

Today, China's State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) launched an antitrust probe into U.S. chipmaker Nvidia.