Raimondo Talks Export Controls in Meeting With Japanese, Korean Ministers
Senior trade officials from the U.S., Japan and South Korea, during a meeting this week, discussed the importance of using export controls to stop foreign adversaries from acquiring their countries’ sensitive technologies, including semiconductors, clean energy technology and artificial intelligence. A readout of the meeting -- held with U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Saito Ken, and Korean Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Ahn Duk-geun -- said the countries want to “deepen our coordination of export controls on advanced technologies” and take other actions to improve the security of their supply chains.
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The three nations said they want to support the “responsible use” of critical and emerging technologies while also “denying technological advances to those who may utilize them to threaten global peace and security and undermine human rights.” The leaders also applauded commitments made by officials from the three countries during a meeting in February, in which they agreed to cooperate on export controls for critical and emerging technologies, better harmonize export controls against Russia and work together to convince other Southeast Asian nations to impose similar controls (see 2402220024).
Raimondo, Saito and Ahn said they plan to meet annually and will “charge our teams to engage between meetings to advance progress in the areas identified for collaboration.”