America's Expanding Semiconductor Export Controls

Much of global economic competition today centers around gaining market share in the semiconductor industry. Over the past decade, the Chinese Government has attempted to expand its market share across the semiconductor value chain through a complex regime of subsidies and state-owned enterprises.

Beginning in the Trump Administration, the United States launched targeted export controls to restrict certain Chinese firms - like Huawei - from obtaining American semiconductor technology. Over the past two years, the Biden Administration has built on and broadened these efforts. In the Fall of 2022, the Commerce Department announced two new rules that restricted the sale of advanced semiconductors, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and related software or technical assistance to China. Earlier this January, U.S. officials announced the existence of a deal with Japan and the Netherlands to craft broad, multinational export controls on semiconductor exports to China.

Can the Chinese semiconductor industry survive these new restrictions? How will they impact U.S. firms and researchers in this sector? Do they form a blueprint for new export control restrictions on other technology exports to China? Join us for a panel with two leading experts on strategic technology and trade controls as they discuss these and other questions.

Featuring:

Hon. Nazak Nikakhtar, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

Chair of the National Security Practice and Co-Chair of the CFIUS practice at Wiley Rein LLP. Nazak served as Assistant Secretary for Industry and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, as well as Under Secretary for the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Commerce Department. She is a former Georgetown University adjunct law professor, an international trade and supply chain economist, and has been working on trade, national security, customs, and supply chain issues for over two decades

Thomas Krueger, Senior Policy Advisor, Akin Gump LLP; Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

Mr. Krueger served as the Director of Strategic Trade and Nonproliferation on the National Security Council from 2020-2022 where he was responsible for advising the President and National Security Advisor on export controls and coordinating related interagency processes. During his time at the White House, he helped formulate policies related to the exports of emerging technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, quantum computing, and semiconductor equipment policies as well as export controls on Russia and its allies in response to Russia's war in Ukraine. Prior to his work on the NSC, he served as a foreign affairs officer in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.

Moderator: Trevor Jones, JD Candidate, Harvard Law School

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