US policymakers have shifted export controls from narrow national-security tools toward broad trade-policy instruments, evidenced by multiple 2025 cases where controls on semiconductors, critical minerals, and software were explicitly negotiated alongside tariffs. Most notably, the Trump administration conditioned Nvidia and AMD export licenses for China on a 15 percent revenue-sharing payment to the US government, moving export control policy into explicit commercial negotiation. This normalization of export-control trading creates structural uncertainty for AI vendors' China-addressable addressable business and signals that market access for frontier chips is now contingent on government revenue-sharing arrangements, not fixed regulatory status.
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