China initiated a WTO trade dispute in December 2022 against US semiconductor export restrictions introduced in October 2022, which restrict chips made with American tools and AI-designed semiconductors from being exported to China. The US defense of the controls cites national security, a category with broad exceptions under WTO rules that make China's case unlikely to succeed. This move signals China views legal challenge as its primary remaining formal mechanism to contest the controls, despite low likelihood of overturning them.
265 other tracked developments touching the same claims.