A House committee took a step on Wednesday toward restricting exports of certain artificial intelligence semiconductor chips to China, a policy proposal that has a prominent opponent in the Trump White House.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 42-2, with one member voting present, to advance a bill that would call for the Commerce Department to require a license for the export, re-export or in-country transfer of certain chips. On a 47-0 vote it approved another bill that would commission a report on China’s AI capabilities.
The markup came after the Trump administration said it will allow sales of Nvidia H200 chips to China and, as President Donald Trump noted in a social media post, “$25% will be paid to the United States of America.”
