US President Donald Trump has launched a new and unconventional approach to checking exports by mediating an agreement with Chipmakers NVIDIA and AMD.
This agreement allows companies to restore the exports of banned AI chips to China in exchange for 15% revenue for the US government. This step caused the debate between lawmakers and experts warning of the risks of business and national security, Reuters said.
Shift in the National Security Policy
Historically, the US government has made non -registered decisions to control the exports of sensitive technologies due to national security. Therefore, it was certain that if the technology was checked, companies could not buy a trip around these controls.
Months earlier, Trump’s administration banned the sale of H20 chips to China to slow down Chinese growth in artificial intelligence (AI).
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This latest agreement with NVIDIA and AMD signals a move away from this long -term policy. The President allowed NVIDIA to sell his H20 chips to China and at the same time conclude a similar agreement with a smaller NVIDIA AMD rival.
According to Reuters Trump, Nvidia is also considering selling a reduced version of its current Blackwell Chips flagship to China.
Concerns surrounding an agreement
He sentenced the latest step from US lawmakers in both parties who warned that he risked creating a framework for paying sensitive technologies to American opponents. This concern was also reflected by analysts and lawyers.
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“Export controls are a front defense in protecting our national security and we should not determine a precedent that would motivate the government to grant licenses for the sale of Chinese technology that will strengthen its AI skills,” said US representative Mooolenaar, Republican, chairman of domestic selection in China.
Is Trump’s move legal?
The agreement is very rare in the US because Trump has so far pushed the executives to invest in American production and demand the resignation of the CEO of Intel, the Lip-Bu Tan, for his links to Chinese companies.
It is also not clear whether Trump’s step towards creating such an agreement is legal, because the US Constitution prohibits the Congress to collect taxes and obligations from articles balanced from any state. Commercial lawyer Jeremy Illian said it is difficult to find out whether this would be considered a “export tax” or some other form of payment without the in -depth knowledge of the agreement.
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Added Kyle Handley, professor at the University of California, San Diego School for Global Policy and Strategy: “It certainly looks like an export tax for me … they can call it anything they want.
Reuters contacted NVIDIA and asked if the company agreed to pay 15% of its revenues from the sale of H20 chips to China. The company spokesman replied: “We follow the rules that the US government for our participation in worldwide markets.”
The spokesman added: “Although we have not hit the H20 months in China, we hope that export control rules will allow America to compete in China and worldwide.”
AMD spokesman said the US has approved its requests to export some AI processors to China, but did not directly deal with an agreement to share income, Reuters reported.
“I think it is fair to say that everything that now seems in this administration seems to be a tradable way that has not been before,” said Sarah Kreps, Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University. “I don’t think it’s unique in that it will be the last kind of trade we see.”
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