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According to overseas media reports, the governments of the United States, the Netherlands and Japan have reached an agreement to impose new international trade control and restrictions on Chinese chip manufacturing. If this action becomes a reality, it will cause huge harm to China's semiconductor industry, as well as immeasurable harm to the global industry and economy, and long-term harm to the interests of global final consumers.

Just the latest news, the China Semiconductor Industry Association made a solemn statement on the restriction of the United States, Japan and the Netherlands on the export of relevant chip manufacturing equipment to China's international trade.

The China Semiconductor Industry Association opposes this act of destroying the existing global semiconductor industry ecology. Oppose this act of interfering in the liberalization of global international trade, distorting the relationship between supply and demand and the balance between supply and demand. Oppose this attempt to exclude China's semiconductor industry from the global industrial system and free market competition!

Semiconductor is the core of the global digital infrastructure, the premise of eliminating the digital divide for all mankind, and the foundation of ensuring people's livelihood in modern society. The semiconductor industry is a global industry, which has been highly dependent on global division of labor and cooperation for a long time. Any artificial tearing of the global industrial system will cause immeasurable harm to the life and development of the global people.

Open cooperation is the best choice to create value and promote global progress. Looking back on the development of the global semiconductor industry for more than 60 years, the reason why the industry has shown today's prosperity is that it depends on the global market and global cooperation and innovation, which is also the core driving force for the development of the semiconductor industry.

China Semiconductor Industry Association joined the World Semiconductor Council (WSC) in 2006, which not only shows the firm determination of China's semiconductor industry to integrate into globalization and marketization, but also shows the determination of China and its global colleagues to develop the global semiconductor industry.

China's semiconductor market has always adhered to open cooperation, created economic value together with global international trading enterprises, and jointly promoted scientific and technological progress. The China Semiconductor Industry Association calls on the global semiconductor industry and academia to unite to safeguard the globalization of the semiconductor industry, promote cooperation and innovation, and continue to create benefits for the industry and human society.

The China Semiconductor Industry Association called on the Chinese government and relevant institutions to formulate rules to safeguard the ecological and healthy development of the global semiconductor industry. For foreign enterprises defending the concept of globalization and the values of the global semiconductor industry, support their healthy business operation in the Chinese market.

The trend that China's economic growth brings us development opportunities will not change. China Semiconductor Industry Association calls on all member units to unite in good faith and resolutely safeguard the stability of the global industrial chain; We should strengthen confidence, respond positively, carry forward the ambition of the industry, prosper the industrial ecology, and create a broad future together.

Looking back at the end of last month, according to the Global Times, "this is a mysterious agreement." Two days after the US media said that "the US has reached an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict the export of advanced chip manufacturing equipment to China in international trade", the three governments still refused to comment. The US media said on the 28th that because of its sensitivity, the three countries did not publicly announce the agreement, and the details are still unclear.

According to the report, American experts believe that Japan and the Netherlands need time to revise their laws and regulations to implement new restrictive measures, and relevant measures "may take months or even years to echo each other". The White House, which often publicized the "containment of China" in a high profile, was unusually low-key this time, triggering media speculation.

Although American officials want to see the agreement as a "victory", they face constraints: they do not want to further anger their allies. It is not clear what mechanism these countries will use to restrict the export of their chip equipment companies to China. Asma, the Dutch lithography machine manufacturer most concerned in the incident, issued a statement on the 28th that the new measures will not affect its sales in 2023. However, the Dutch and Japanese media generally believed that if the relevant measures were implemented, it would have a significant impact on the prospects of domestic enterprises in the Chinese market, prompting China to seek other suppliers and develop its own technology.