Trump to Push Hard on ASML Export Controls, Dutch Premier Says

The Netherlands expects President Donald Trump to keep pressing to restrict ASML Holding NV’s exports of chip-making machines to China, according to Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof.

“The Biden administration pushed very hard and I expect the Trump administration pushing the same way,” Schoof said in an interview with Bloomberg in Davos on Wednesday. With regard to the China policy, the US and the Netherlands “are aligned,” the prime minister said.

The Netherlands has been limiting ASML’s sales to China under pressure from the US, which wants to limit the development of the Asian nation’s chip sector, in the ...