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# Netherlands pushes back on US chip export restrictions targeting ASML
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/netherlands-pushes-back-on-us-chip-export-restrictions-targeting-asml/
- Published: 2026-06-25T16:10:05.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-25T16:10:05.000Z
- Description: The Dutch government is actively defending ASML’s commercial interests against tightening US export controls, revealing economic tensions within the Western alliance over semiconductor decoupling from China.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-connected, semiconductor manufacturing, export controls, geopolitical supply chains

Source: [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/netherlands-lobbies-us-to-drop-chip-curbs-targeting-asml-sales?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

The Dutch government is actively defending ASML's commercial interests against tightening US export controls, revealing economic tensions within the Western alliance over semiconductor decoupling from China. ASML controls 80% of the global market for lithography equipment, and any meaningful restrictions on its sales directly threaten Dutch GDP and tech sector leverage—making the Netherlands a reluctant brake on the containment strategy Washington is accelerating. This lobby campaign exposes how technology decoupling isn't a unified Western project but rather a negotiation between countries with conflicting supply-chain dependencies and geopolitical leverage points.