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Netherlands opposes US proposal to further bar chip giant ASML from China market

South China Morning Post · · 166 words · By Finbarr Bermingham
US-China Trade War Semiconductor Industry Regulation International Diplomacy
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5 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“the Netherlands has communicated its objections, particularly regarding the extraterritorial aspects, to both members of Congress and the US government”
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The claim is explicitly stated in one web search result ('Netherlands protests US proposal to further bar chip giant ASML from...'), but no other independent sources in the provided evidence corroborate this specific diplomatic communication.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherla…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands
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“Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma said in written answers to lawmakers published on Tuesday”
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The provided evidence contains a snippet from a news report mentioning the Netherlands' objections, but the specific detail about Sjoerd Sjoerdsma providing written answers to lawmakers on a Tuesday is not corroborated by a second independent source in the evidence provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Dutch: Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken; BZ) is the Netherlands' ministry responsible for foreign relations, foreign policy, international development, international …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_(N…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rianne Monique Letschert (born 13 September 1976) is a Dutch law scholar who is the minister of education, culture and science in the Jetten cabinet since February 2026. Letschert previously held pos…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma (born 10 July 1981) is a Dutch diplomat and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation since February 2026 in the Jetten cabinet. A memb…
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“The Multilateral Alignment of Technology Controls on Hardware (Match) Act, introduced into the US Congress by a bipartisan group of lawmakers last month”
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Multiple independent web sources refer to the 'MATCH Act' as a US legislative effort targeting Chinese chipmaking and lithography, specifically mentioning its introduction and focus on DUV immersion lithography.
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“would ban ASML from shipping lower-end deep ultraviolet lithography machines to Chinese buyers, and also prevent it from servicing existing customers there”
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Two independent web sources explicitly state that the MATCH Act establishes a ban on the sale of immersion Deep Ultraviolet (DUV) lithography tools to China and prohibits vendor engineers from maintaining or repairing (servicing) tools already installed.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL or simply EUV) is a technology used in the semiconductor industry for manufacturing integrated circuits (ICs). It is a type of photolithography that uses 13.5 nm …
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“Currently, the company is banned from selling its most advanced extreme ultraviolet machines to China”
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Multiple sources confirm that ASML is prohibited from selling its most advanced EUV machines to China, with one source specifically noting the prohibition has been in place since 2019 due to US pressure.
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web search NEUTRAL — Extreme ultraviolet lithography is a technology used in the semiconductor industry for manufacturing integrated circuits. It is a type of photolithography that uses 13.5 nm extreme ultraviolet light f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ultraviolet_lithograph…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Machine has emerged as a competitive domain between US and China in the semiconductor war, with the former going all out to restrict the latter's access to EUV .
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web search NEUTRAL — ASML, the world’s only manufacturer of EUV machines – which are critical for producing chips with nodes below seven nanometres – has been prohibited from selling its most advanced models to China sinc…
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3308204/form…
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