Overview

• Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs updated its strategic high-tech commodities entity list on June 14 to include Huawei Technologies and SMIC.
• The new designation obliges Taiwanese suppliers to secure government approval before exporting any products to the two Chinese firms.
• Huawei and SMIC were already barred under U.S. Commerce Department sanctions from receiving American goods and chips made with U.S. technology.
• Taipei cited national security concerns and the prevention of arms proliferation as the rationale for expanding its export controls.
• China is boosting its drive for semiconductor self-sufficiency by developing domestic EUV lithography machines in response to the tighter curbs.