But they will affect Israel, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
Agency Reuters reported, citing informed sources, that new US export control rules for supplies of advanced equipment to China, which are due to be issued in August of this year, will not affect the activities of companies located in Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea and, in total, more than 30 countries that the US authorities consider friendly.
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This means that chip-making equipment suppliers from the Netherlands and Japan, which currently rely heavily on the Chinese market for revenue, will not be affected by the new restrictions, but will have to continue to take existing ones into account. Israel, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia, among others, will have to comply with new U.S. export control requirements.
At the same time, the criteria for assessing whether a particular piece of equipment belongs to the category using American-origin technologies will be tightened. The threshold will be lowered to a level where even a single chip of American origin will be enough to extend export control rules to such equipment. At the same time, about 120 Chinese companies will be added to the US sanctions list, and targeted measures will be aimed at supplying modern chip manufacturing equipment to about six large chip manufacturing enterprises in China.
