US Weighs Annual China Chip Supply Approvals for Samsung, Hynix
The US, Trump officials, after canceling the Biden period waves, which allows companies to receive such shipments more easily, Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc.’s factories in China proposes annual approvals for export of chipset materials.
Authorities in the US Commercial Department presented a “site license” idea to support the uncertain powers that chip producers secured under the previous administration, according to people who knew the issue last week. The so -called verified end user or veu are determined to end at the end of this year.
The VU system has given Samsung and SK Hynix continuously to send an estimated amount of materials based on pre -security and monitoring commitments to factories, pre -security and monitoring commitments to the factories in China, where the US has widely prevented the shipments of semiconductors and the vehicles required to make them. The Trump team’s proposal, instead of South Korea’s largest two companies, required Washington to search for approval for a year for a year, and announced in exactly the exact amounts at a time.
This brings a new complexity, but also a way for South Korea’s best chip manufacturers to run giant factories in China, rinting components from smartphones to data centers. US officials said they did not want to disrupt the operations in these facilities, but would not approve gear shipments that could be used to raise or expand them.
All of Washington’s draft proposal was separated from the South Korean industry, and people who want government officials to disclose the anonymously sensitive conversations, relieved that there was a way forward and disappointed with the extra load.
Samsung and South Korea Trade, Industry and Energy’s spokesman refused to comment, SK Hynix did not respond immediately. The US Trade Department Industry and Security Bureau, which controls semiconductor export controls, did not respond to the request for comments.
The general situation once again pushed South Korea among the most important ally and the largest trade partner. Only days after President Lee Jae Myung, who campaign to balance ties with the US, Washington and Beijing, aroused their waves – markets and anger from China.
And now Trump administration, immigrant officers Georgia, Savannah near the battery facility attempts to raid the regulation of the third and fifth largest companies in South Korea LG Energy Solotion Ltd. and Hyundai Motor Co. increased operations for.
Washington applied sweeping controls to China in 2022 as a part of a long -term campaign to limit the mastery of the Asian country in semiconductors and artificial intelligence. Former President Joe Biden’s team waived Samsung and Sk Hynix and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. – the impact of these pavements on companies on companies that have been running for long -term plants in a country.
It was a great diplomatic victory for the former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to secure this and appointments. This status, once announced by an official in Seoul, solved the “biggest commercial problem için for two chipset producers.
Discussions continued and no final decision was made. In some respects, Washington’s latest offer can be the best result Seoul.
Considering that Trump officials are determined, they will not restore the velu waiveds that Samsung and SK Hynix criticized as “Biden During the Biden Period ,, and will provide more predictability than companies have to apply for new US approvals according to the new US approval. Washington officials, in a federal notification, Samsung and Sk Hynix’in and the status of the status of the status of 1,000 permission every year, he said.
However, companies have difficulty predicting exactly which parts they may need to fix their production equipment that can be broken at any moment for 12 months. And if they need to import the components they do not symbolize in the first site license, they are afraid that BIS may not work quickly enough to avoid production cuts.
A US official asked about industrial concerns about the time schedule, rejected these fears. Washington, if needed, balances commercial facts with American national security interests, speaks in general about the veu problem, and has a solid system to quickly license the site license, especially about the idea of the site license.
In general, Trump’s team requires more visibility to materials in South Korean chip manufacturers than people familiar with their thoughts – and that posts only when they confirm Washington proactive.
In the meantime, industrial officials, the US government and WAU program to Washington what is already important in Chinese facilities – what is important – planned or completed posts, including the US ability to ask for risky to prevent export, including the ongoing discussions.
Washington is worried about “technology leakage or directing equipment to Chinese companies”. However, as a part of Samsung and Sk Hynix’s appointments, given that they have already made significant security guarantees, the authorized question, “The real question, how to secure them at this point,” he said.
With the help of Yolim Lee, Heesu Lee and Debby Wu.
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