Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the United States is not sending its “best chips” to China, in line with the Trump administration’s export restrictions on advanced artificial intelligence chips.
“I want to be crystal clear: We are not selling our best chips to China under any circumstance,” he told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday while testifying about the president’s fiscal year 2027 budget request.
Lutnick assured the congressional panel that the U.S. is not selling Nvidia’s Blackwell chips and that the Chinese government or state-affiliated companies are not buying any chips from that brand.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) pressed the commerce secretary, saying she had unspecified intelligence that said the U.S. was exporting top-quality chips to China. Lutnick responded, telling the senator, “They have not bought any as of today.”
In January, the Trump administration approved the export of Nvidia’s H200 chips to China on certain conditions. The move alarmed China
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