{"id":21865,"date":"2026-01-01T13:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T11:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/us-grants-tsmc-annual-licence-to-import-chipmaking-tools-into-china\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:49","slug":"us-grants-tsmc-annual-licence-to-import-chipmaking-tools-into-china","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-grants-tsmc-annual-licence-to-import-chipmaking-tools-into-china\/","title":{"rendered":"US grants TSMC annual licence to import chipmaking tools into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The approval &#8220;ensures uninterrupted fab operations and product deliveries,&#8221; the company <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">said<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in a <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">statement<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reuters<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> South Korea&#8217;s Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have also received similar import licences. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Previously, <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Asian companies had benefited from exemptions from Washington&#8217;s sweeping restrictions on chip-related exports to China, part of <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">US<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> efforts <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">to try<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> to stay ahead of China in technological development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> those privileges, known as validated end-user <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">status<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, expired on December 31 and the companies had to seek <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">US<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> export licences instead for 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;The US Department of Commerce has granted TSMC Nanjing an annual export license that allows US export-controlled items to be supplied to TSMC Nanjing without the need for individual vendor licenses,&#8221; TSMC said in its statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It added the licence &#8220;ensures uninterrupted fab operations and product deliveries&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16381,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-21865","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The United States (US) government has granted an annual licence to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China, the chipmaker said on Thursday.","published_date":null,"news_description":"The United States (US) government has granted an annual licence to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to import US chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China, the chipmaker said on Thursday.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25369,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21865\/revisions\/25369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}