Trump Moves Forward With Plans to Tighten U.S. High-Tech Exports

U.S. asks industry to comment on its list, from AI to robotics
Deutsche Bank: U.S. tech business may be constrained in China

More U.S. tariffs on China are a mistake, according to Rufus Yerxa of the National Foreign Trade Council.(Source: Bloomberg)

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By Sarah Wells and Jenny Leonard

November 20, 2018 at 9:21 AM UTC

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November 20, 2018 at 5:20 PM UTC

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The Trump administration pushed ahead with plans to tighten restrictions on technology exports, a measure that Deutsche Bank AG says would have a “profound and long lasting adverse impact” on relations between the U.S. and China.

A request for public comment, published Monday on the U.S. government’s Federal Register, asks if a list of new technologies that have national security applications -- from artificial intelligence to microprocessors and robotics -- should be subject to more stringent export-control rules.