**[MOFCOM Responds to U.S. Commerce Department's Export Restrictions on Advanced Complex Chips]**
SMM, November 14 - The Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) held a regular press conference. A reporter asked: "It is reported that the U.S. Commerce Department has sent a letter to TSMC, implementing export restrictions on certain complex chips designed at 7 nanometers or more advanced levels, intended for AI accelerators and graphics processing units, when shipped to China. What are the spokesman's comments on this?" He Yongqian, spokesman for MOFCOM, stated that China has noticed the relevant situation. For some time now, the U.S. has continuously abused export control measures and implemented long-arm jurisdiction, tightening its suppression and containment of China's semiconductor industry and fragmenting the global semiconductor market. This is a severe violation of international economic and trade rules, a rude interference in free trade, and a typical non-market practice. Semiconductors are a typical representative field of global industrial division and cooperation, and the U.S. approach will seriously harm the interests of all parties and hinder global scientific and technological exchanges as well as economic and trade cooperation.
