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WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The Biden medication connected Thursday added Chinese representation chipmaker YMTC and 21 "major" Chinese players successful the artificial quality spot assemblage to a commercialized blacklist, broadening its crackdown connected China's spot industry.
YMTC, agelong successful the crosshairs of the U.S. government, was added to the database implicit fears it could divert American exertion to antecedently blacklisted Chinese tech giants Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] and Hikvision (002415.SZ). The move, laid retired successful the Federal Register, volition barroom YMTC's suppliers from shipping U.S. goods to it without a difficult-to-obtain license.
The 21 Chinese AI spot entities being added to the commercialized blacklist, which see Cambricon Technologies Corp (688256.SS) and CETC, look an adjacent tougher penalty, with the U.S. authorities efficaciously blocking their entree to exertion made anyplace successful the satellite with U.S. equipment.
Another notable sanction was PXW Semiconductor Manufactory Co, a startup spot fab is backed by the Shenzhen metropolis authorities and led by an ex-Huawei executive.
As the Chinese authorities seeks to region barriers betwixt its subject and civilian sectors, "U.S. nationalist information interests necessitate that we enactment decisively to contradict entree to precocious technologies,” Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Thea Kendler said successful a statement.
YMTC, Cambricon, CETC and PXW did not instantly respond to requests for comment. Shares successful Cambricon, which was spun retired of the authorities deliberation vessel China Academy of Sciences successful 2016 and went nationalist 4 years later, fell 6% upon opening connected Friday.
The Chinese embassy successful Washington said the United States was engaging successful "blatant economical coercion and bullying successful the tract of technology," undermining mean concern activities betwixt Chinese and American companies and threatening the stableness of planetary proviso chains.
"China volition resolutely safeguard the lawful rights and interests of Chinese companies and institutions," it added.
The determination builds connected sweeping export controls imposed connected Beijing successful October to dilatory Beijing's technological and subject advances, including measures to curb China's entree to U.S. chipmaking tools and chopped it disconnected from definite chips made anyplace successful the satellite with American equipment.
It besides comes arsenic Congress prepares to finalize authorities to barroom the U.S. authorities from buying products that incorporate semiconductors made by YMTC, Chinese representation chipmaker CXMT oregon China's apical spot manufacturer, SMIC.
The Commerce Department connected Thursday besides targeted 9 Chinese entities for allegedly seeking to enactment China's subject modernization, including Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment Group Co Ltd (SMEE), China's lone lithography company.
SMEE did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
It added Chinese surveillance camera shaper Tianjin Tiandi Weiye Technologies for allegedly participating successful "China’s run of repression, wide arbitrary detention, and high-tech surveillance against Uyghurs." Tiandi did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.
A full of 35 Chinese entities were added to the U.S. commercialized blacklist, known arsenic the entity list, arsenic good arsenic YMTC's Japan-based subsidiary.
Thursday's announcements weren't each atrocious quality for Beijing. The Biden medication removed a subsidiary of Wuxi Biologics, a institution that makes ingredients for AstraZeneca's (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine, and 26 different Chinese entities from the alleged unverified database acknowledgment to palmy tract visits.
Two of the Chinese companies removed from the unverified database - YMTC and SMEE - were added to the entity list.
Reuters reported connected Wednesday that specified a determination was successful the works. Reuters besides reported earlier this twelvemonth that U.S officials were capable to behaviour a tract sojourn astatine Wuxi Biologics earlier a antithetic subsidiary of the institution was removed from the unverified database successful October.
Wuxi did not respond to a petition for comment.
Companies are added to the unverified database if the United States cannot implicit on-site visits to find whether they tin beryllium trusted to person delicate U.S. exertion exports, inspections, which successful China necessitate support from the country's commerce ministry.
Being added to the unverified database forces U.S. suppliers to execute greater owed diligence earlier shipping to the targeted companies.
Commerce Department officials person attributed greater practice from Beijing successful tract checks to a U.S. regularisation announced successful October. Under that rule, if a authorities prevents U.S. officials from conducting tract checks astatine companies connected the unverified list, Washington whitethorn adhd them to the entity database aft 60 days.
Under that caller policy, the Commerce Department connected Thursday removed 9 Russian entities from the unverified database and added them to the entity database due to the fact that the United States has been incapable to behaviour tract visits.
Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer heralded the caller penalties connected YMTC, which Reuters reported was nether probe for allegedly violating U.S. export regulations by supplying chips to Huawei without a license.
"YMTC poses an contiguous menace to our nationalist security, truthful the Biden Administration needed to enactment swiftly to forestall YMTC from gaining adjacent an inch of a subject oregon economical advantage,” helium said successful a statement.
Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Additional reporting by David Shepardson, Doina Chiacu, and Michael Martina; Josh Horwitz successful Shanghai; Editing by Chris Sanders, Lincoln Feast Doina Chiacu, Jonathan Oatis and William Mallard
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