LOS ANGELES — Democratic lawmakers in the western United States state of California are urging the Biden administration to end its plans to impose new restrictions on generation exports to China, arguing that new controls “could lead long-standing U. S. corporations into a death spiral. “”,” Reuters reported on Wednesday.
According to the report, US Democratic lawmakers in California, the US’s largest economy, said that “unilateral restrictions gain advantages for foreign rivals at the expense of US businesses. “
“We ask you to suspend further unilateral export controls until you have sufficiently demonstrated that such controls will harm U. S. competitiveness in complex semiconductors and semiconductor production equipment,” Sen. Alex Padilla and Rep. Zoe Lofgren said in a letter to Estevez, who oversees export controls within the United States Commerce Department.
In the letter, the lawmakers claim that US allies have imposed such competitive restrictions on Chinese exports on their own companies.
“The letter is a sign of growing opposition to Biden’s semiconductor policy among Democrats in California, where the largest U. S. chipmaking device companies, LAM, Applied Materials, and KLA are located,” the report said.
The Netherlands and Japan, home to chipmaking device makers ASML and Tokyo Electron, respectively, have also imposed restrictions on device exports to China, although they have not gone so far as to enforce some of the measures. stricter restrictions imposed throughout the United States. United States, he added.