Chip export controls were not a major topic in Beijing, US Trade Rep Greer says

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Friday that semiconductor export controls were not a major topic at this week's U.S.-China bilateral meetings in Beijing. "This was not a major topic of discussion at the bilateral meeting," he told Bloomberg TV. "We did not talk about chip export controls at the meeting." The comments came after China's Ministry of Commerce publicly criticized the MATCH Act, legislation that would tighten controls on chipmaking equipment exports and bind the Netherlands and Japan to a 150-day alignment deadline. Beijing's foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian framed the act as evidence of Washington's "overstretching of national security" and "malicious blocking and suppression." Separately, Reuters reported Washington cleared sales of Nvidia's H200 AI chips to several major Chinese technology firms shortly after President Donald Trump met President Xi Jinping on Thursday. The administration shifted H200 and AMD MI325X reviews from presumption of denial to case-