U.S. Lawmakers Ease Planned Curbs on Chinese Chips amid Corporate Pushback
U.S. senators scaled back a proposal that placed new curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S. government and its contractors, according to a final version of the measure published Tuesday, amid pushback from trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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The final version no longer forbids contractors from "using" the targeted chips and pushes the compliance deadline back to five years from the immediate or two-year implementation deadlines included in the first version.
"This does not clearly prohibit contractors from themselves using covered semiconductor products," said Robyn Burrows, a lawyer at Blank Rome specializing in federal contracting, when asked to read excerpts of a recent draft of the measure obtained by Reuters and later published Tuesday night as part of a final legislative package.
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"U.S. Lawmakers Ease Planned Curbs on Chinese Chips amid Corporate Pushback," by Alexandra Alper was published in Reuters on December 6, 2022.