What is the basis for “take a cut”? Is there any reporting on that? These crooks…

It would be the US taking a 25% cut in the form of tariffs:

“Under the scheme, Nvidia chips manufactured in Taiwan could be sold to Chinese companies if they were first imported into the United States for a security review, which would require payment of a 25% tariff under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a trade law designed to address imports that threaten national security. Then the Commerce Department would grant Nvidia an export license to sell the chips to Chinese companies.”

https://democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center/press-...

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motionlessveloc a day ago | parent | next [-]

A security review... of the physical chips? With an electron microscope or something? How is that supposed to work even on paper?

	▲	kube-system a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The way it works is that it is a completely made up reason just to require the chips to cross the US border so the administration can use this as a bullshit reason they don't have to follow the constitution.
	▲	snypher a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well exactly the same way our friends at tailored access operations perform security reviews; https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa... and the totally believable response from cisco; https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/resources/cu...

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bix6 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This administration never ceases to amaze me

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kube-system a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're referring to tariffs. Full letter here:

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/11122026wydenneal...

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curt15 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

A quarter of all H200 proceeds from China: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/trump-nvidia-h200-china-ai-c...