{"id":29107,"date":"2025-06-05T16:11:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29107"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:37:11","slug":"how-asml-a-key-supplier-to-the-chip-industry-is-navigating-trumps-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29107","title":{"rendered":"How ASML, a Key Supplier to the Chip Industry, Is Navigating Trump\u2019s Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seemingly every week, Christophe Fouquet, the chief executive of the Dutch technology company ASML, has found himself grappling with political firestorms.<\/p>\n

Last month, President Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on European goods sold to the United States, potentially raising some costs for ASML\u2019s lithography machines, which are critical for producing advanced microchips<\/a>. Two days later, he paused the tariffs.<\/p>\n

Around the same time, the foreign minister of the Netherlands was in Beijing, partly to discuss lifting the rules that bar Chinese companies from buying ASML\u2019s equipment. Then this week, the Dutch government collapsed<\/a>, throwing any trade talks into question.<\/p>\n

All of these events had the potential to disrupt ASML, which is the only maker of complex lithography machines that can cost as much as $400 million and be as big as a train car. The tools are so coveted by nations such as China and the United States for making cutting-edge chips that ASML has been turned into a geopolitical chess piece in trade battles, with some of its products restricted for export to certain countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The tussling has made it an uncertain time for Mr. Fouquet, 52, a Frenchman who took over as chief executive of the $300 billion company last year. \u201cA large part of it is still out of our hands,\u201d he said in a recent interview from ASML\u2019s headquarters in the small town of Veldhoven, about 80 miles south of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The chief executive of ASML, Christophe Fouquet, is grappling with global trade tensions.<\/span>Kevin Faingnaert for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Seemingly every week, Christophe Fouquet, the chief executive of the Dutch technology company ASML, has found himself grappling with political firestorms.Last month, President Trump announced 50 percent tariffs on European goods sold to the United States, potentially raising some costs for ASML\u2019s lithography machines, which are critical for producing advanced microchips. Two days later, he paused the tariffs.Around the same time, the foreign minister of the Netherlands was in Beijing, partly to discuss lifting the rules that bar Chinese companies from buying ASML\u2019s equipment. Then this week, the Dutch government collapsed, throwing any trade talks into question.All of these events had the potential to disrupt ASML, which is the only maker of complex lithography machines that can cost as much as $400 million and be as big as a train car. The tools are so coveted by nations such as China and the United States for making cutting-edge chips that ASML has been turned into a geopolitical chess piece in trade battles, with some of its products restricted for export to certain countries.The tussling has made it an uncertain time for Mr. Fouquet, 52, a Frenchman who took over as chief executive of the $300 billion company last year. \u201cA large part of it is still out of our hands,\u201d he said in a recent interview from ASML\u2019s headquarters in the small town of Veldhoven, about 80 miles south of Amsterdam.The chief executive of ASML, Christophe Fouquet, is grappling with global trade tensions.Kevin Faingnaert for The New York TimesA silicon wafer at ASML\u2019s headquarters in the Netherlands.Kevin Faingnaert for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29109,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29110,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29107\/revisions\/29110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}