According to Reuters, US government officials, industry experts, and sources said that whether Trump or Harris serves as the next US president, it is expected that new measures will take new measures to slow down the imported chips, smart cars and other products from China. At the same time, it will further limit the manufacturing equipment for export chips and artificial intelligence chips that are highly valued.
Former US National Security Council official Peter Harrell said that China and the United States are competing fiercely in science and technology such as data, software and interconnection equipment. Last month, the United States proposed to prohibit use Chinese software and hardware in connected cars and autonomous cars on the United States.
Peter Harrell said: “If a Chinese company can access and update these devices, this will cause many concerns of the US government. Netlina cars are just the tip of the iceberg.”
In addition, sources said that if the US Democratic presidential candidate Harris won the election, her approach may be more targeted and coordinated than the US Republican presidential candidate Trump. In contrast, Nazak Nikakhtar, former US Department of Commerce, who knows Trump’s current consultant team, predicts that Trump will perform “more aggressively in export control policies for China.”
Nazak Nikakhtar is expected to be listed as a “foreign entity list” by the United States as a watched “foreign entity list”, covering listed companies and its subsidiaries and business partners to restrict the behavior of physical exports on the list.
Nazak Nikakhtar also said that the license to export American technology to China is also likely to be rejected. She admits that if Trump not only does import restrictions on Chinese chips, but also in import restrictions on “some products containing these chips”, she will not be surprised by this.
Former US Department of Commerce official Bill Reinsch believes that Trump may adopt a “dance sledgehammer” control method, while Harris will use the “surgery knife” accurate method. “Trump’s approach is comprehensive, which is the most obvious in his current tariff proposal.”
Trump has said that 10%or 20%of tariffs will be levied on all imported products (not only Chinese products), and 60%or higher tariffs are levied on products imported from China.
Harris described Trump’s tariff plans as actually taxes on consumers, but the Bayeng government believes that it is necessary to implement targeted tariffs, including increasing the semiconductor tax rate from 25%to 50%by 2025.
In this regard, China has repeatedly emphasized to defend its rights and interests. Last year, China implemented export restrictions on metal 锗 and 镓 widely used for chip manufacturing to safeguard national security interests. A few days after the US tightening exports related to chips, China released new export restrictions on some graphite products used for electric vehicle batteries in October last October. In June this year, China announced new regulations on rare earth elements.
Former US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said that the United States still relies on China in terms of rare earth, and it is very dangerous to try to cut off the import of rare earth elements.