(Amsterdam Bloomberg) The Dutch Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Minister Schunamalhr said on Tuesday (November 22) that the Netherlands will defend its own economic interests on selling chip equipment in China.
This indicates that the Netherlands is unwilling to obey the requirements of Washington and participate in the surround of Chinese technology.
According to Bloomberg, Shi Laeneum told Councilor that during the negotiations with the trade rules of the United States and other allies, the Dutch government will do it on the issue of ASML HOLDING to Chinadecision.
ASML (ASML) has dominated the cutting -edge chip manufacturing equipment market, and has become the focus of the US government trying to restrict China.
U.S. officials have been lobbying that the Dutch officials prohibit ASML from selling some old deep ultraviolet (DUV) photocront machines. These machines are one generation behind advanced technologies, but they are still a certain need for cars, mobile phones, computers, and robots.Some non -advanced chips are the most commonly used devices.
Shi Laine Mapa said: "What is important is that we must defend our own interests and our national security, but we must also defend our economic interests. If we put it in the European Union's baskets to negotiate with the United States, and finallyAs a result, we have to give the extremely deep ultraviolet light carved machine to the United States, and our situation will be worse. "
Deep UV system is the second advanced chip production machine made by ASML, which is necessary for manufacturing various semiconductor equipment.
Schriene Malach also said last week that the United States should not expect the Netherlands to adopt Washington's measures to restrict exports to China.
