<p id="speakable-summary" class="wp-block-paragraph">Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8170">MATCH Act</a>, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">“It’s exceptional that I’m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,” Sjoerdsma <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/netherlands-lobbies-us-to-drop-chip-curbs-targeting-asml-sales">told Bloomberg</a> after the meetings. “The stakes for the Netherlands may be very high.”</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">China accounts for 19% of ASML’s net system sales. The MATCH Act would go further than existing controls, extending curbs to ASML’s deep ultraviolet immersion machines on top of the long-standing ban on its most advanced extreme ultraviolet, or EUV, tools reaching China.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/asml-ceo-christophe-fouquet-no-one-is-coming-for-us/">told TechCrunch</a> in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now relegate off limits.</p>
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">The bill, introduced in April, hasn’t yet faced a full House or Senate vote; Bloomberg notes it would likely need to be folded into a larger package to pass.</p>
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