(Geneva Comprehensive News) China requires the United States, Japan, and the Netherlands to clarify whether there is an agreement on the restrictions on export chips to China, and say that such an agreement violates the public and transparent principles of the WTO, and calls on the WTO to strengthen the supervision of these measures.
According to CCTV news reports, the Chinese representatives were widely exposed to the media at the meeting of the World Trade Organization Council Trade Council on Monday to Tuesday (April 3rd to 4th).Agreement between Japan and the Netherlands about chip export restrictions "is proposed.
Chinese representatives said at the meeting that the member states of the three World Trade Organizations of the United States and Japan may "clearly realize that the agreement violates the rules of the WTO" and therefore maintains low -key content on the content of the agreement.
The agreement violates the principle of openness and transparency of the WTO, and destroys the authority and effectiveness of the WTO rules.
Chinese representatives require the United States, Japan and the Netherlands to report the agreement and follow -up measures to the WTO, and call on the WTO to strengthen supervision of these measures.
Reuters also quoted an anonymous trading official in Geneva, confirming that China raised the above problems and requirements at the conference.However, the relevant reports did not mention any response to the WTO.
Last Friday (March 31), the Japanese government announced that it would implement export control on 23 cutting -edge semiconductor manufacturing technology, but China did not list China as a direct restriction.The Ministry of Commerce of China responded on Tuesday (April 4) that it expressed serious concerns about the export of Japanese -restricted chip manufacturing equipment and called on Japan to correct the error.
The Dutch government also stated in early March that it plans to implement new restrictions on the export of semiconductor chip technology to protect national security. Relevant restrictions will be introduced before summer.
According to previous reports, the United States reached an agreement with Japan and the Netherlands in January this year to expand the export control measures for China's semiconductor industry in October last year to the two countries in Japan to limit China to obtain advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment and weaken its chip production capacityEssence
