The US told Apple not to buy Chinese memory chips. It has no rule that stops it
The commerce secretary made the comments to The Wall Street Journal on 14 August, in a piece by Rolfe Winkler, Raffaele Huang and Amrith Ramkumar. “The Trump administration is not in favor of that,” Lutnick said. There have to be “other solutions to the memory issue, but it’s not great American companies using Chinese memory”. Asked whether he had put that to Apple directly, he answered in one word. “Plainly.”
The Journal’s second sentence is the one worth keeping, though. Apple may do so anyway.
The objection is political rather than legal
Two Chinese manufacturers are involved, and their positions are not identical. Yangtze Memory Technologies sits on the Commerce Department’s Entity List, and CXMT does not. The Pentagon has designated both as Chinese military companies, but that designation signals concern rather than banning commercial purchases.
What the rules actually require is a licence before an American company shares product...
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