Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says

Greer told Bloomberg TV the bilateral did not address chip controls, even as Reuters reported the Trump administration cleared Nvidia H200 sales to several Chinese firms after the Xi meeting.

Semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week’s US-China bilateral meetings in Beijing, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Bloomberg TV on Friday.

“This was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting,” he said. “We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting.”

The statement is striking for what it leaves on the cutting-room floor. China’s Ministry of Commerce had spent the days before the summit publicly attacking the MATCH Act, the US legislation that would tighten controls on chipmaking equipment exports and bind the Netherlands and Japan to a 150-day alignment deadline.

Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian framed it as evidence of Washington’s “overstretching of national ...