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The Trump administration on Tuesday formally gave the green light to Nvidia’s exports, allowing the tech giant to ship its artificial intelligence chips to China and other countries.
In a new rule set to be published on January 15, the Commerce Department is easing US export restrictions to China on Nvidia’s H200 chip, a move President Donald Trump announced last month.
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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang looks on as President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on November 19, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The tech company continued, “The administration’s critics are unintentionally advancing the interests of foreign competitors on U.S. entity lists. America should always want its industry to compete for vetted and approved commercial activities, and to support real jobs for real Americans.”
The rule outlines that the Commerce Department’s Industry and Security Bureau will revise its license review policy for certain semiconductor exports to China from a presumption of denial to a case-by-case review, partially rolling back Biden-era controls on high-end chip exports.
Trump announced last month that he would allow the sale of chips in exchange for a 25% fee to the US government, saying the deal would be closely monitored to protect national security.
“I have informed President Xi of China that the United States will allow Nvidia to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China and other countries, under conditions that allow for continued strong national security,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social in December.
Nvidia’s H200 chips are powerful processors that help run AI programs including chatbots, machine learning, and data center tasks.
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia Corp, and US President Donald Trump. (Graeme Sloan/Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
The regulations state that the chips will be tested in the United States by third parties to confirm their AI capabilities and functions, and that China will be allowed to receive no more than 50% of the total chips sold in the US.
Nvidia must certify that there is sufficient supply of the chips in the US, and China must also demonstrate sufficient security procedures.
China is prohibited from using the chips for military purposes.
Reuters reported last month that Chinese tech companies have placed orders for more than 2 million H200 chips, each costing about $27,000, far more than Nvidia’s current inventory of about 700,000 chips.
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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang introduces an “Industrial AI Cloud” project during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, November 4, 2025. (REUTERS/Lisi Niesner / Reuters)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that the company was increasing chip production due to strong global demand, including from China, driving up prices for renting the chips in cloud-computing data centers.
Trump has previously rejected the Biden administration’s rules limiting exports of advanced AI chips and semiconductors to China over national security concerns.
Those restrictions largely targeted Nvidia’s previous generation of high-end chips, as part of an effort to prevent China from gaining a technological edge.
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Last month, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Trump of “selling out America” after he announced that the U.S. planned to allow Nvidia to export its chips to China and other countries.
