{"id":5624,"date":"2026-04-24T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:12:09","slug":"tech-war-us-congress-rolls-out-largest-export-control-upgrade-against-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/5624\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech war: US Congress rolls out \u2018largest\u2019 export control upgrade against China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US lawmakers have advanced 20 new export control measures \u2013 including the controversial Match Act \u2013 to further restrict Chinese access to US technology and bar Chinese chipmakers from gaining access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In the latest salvo in the US-China tech war, the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday passed the measures through the committee stage to be deliberated by the rest of the House, describing the action as the \u201clargest significant export control mark-up in the history of Congress\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cChina has made it abundantly clear that it intends to dominate the technologies that underpin both our economy and our national defence,\u201d said Republican Representative Michael Baumgartner. \u201cThe United States cannot afford to leave open back doors that allow the Chinese Communist Party to acquire the tools it needs to leap ahead in semiconductor manufacturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ASML\u2019s DUV lithography system. Photo: Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/884a49c0-2cad-4a79-829a-2fd062a03083_8a2f2842.jpg\" title=\"ASML\u2019s DUV lithography system. Photo: Reuters\"\/>ASML\u2019s DUV lithography system. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Match Act proposed by Baumgartner, which stands for Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware, would require US allies such as Japan and the Netherlands to more closely align with US restrictions on selling advanced semiconductor equipment to China, such as Dutch firm ASML\u2019s deep ultraviolet (DUV) immersion lithography machines.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Introduced in early April, the initial bill raised alarm among industry players both in the US and in allied countries over concerns that the new expansive restrictions would hurt sales.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some of the restrictions were rolled back before Wednesday\u2019s vote, including a countrywide ban on selling cryogenic etching tools for making chips to China, though restrictions on DUV machine exports remained, according to a Reuters report.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis bill would address one of the gravest issues we face today, by limiting China\u2019s access to the most critical machines and parts needed to make advanced chips,\u201d said Brian Mast, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US lawmakers have advanced 20 new export control measures \u2013 including the controversial Match Act \u2013 to further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[65,5212,87,5210,5206,5208,5207,1057,5211,580,6,666,798,540,5209],"class_list":{"0":"post-5624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-asml","8":"tag-asml","9":"tag-changxin-memory-technologies","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-chinese-communist-party","12":"tag-congress","13":"tag-deterring-american-ai-model-theft-act","14":"tag-house-foreign-affairs-committee","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-match-act","17":"tag-micron-technology","18":"tag-netherlands","19":"tag-reuters","20":"tag-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corp","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-yangtze-memory-technologies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}