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Scott Bessent says attempt to put Megaspeed on trade blacklist stalled ‘because commerce has the pen’ – US politics live

Scott Bessent says attempt to put Megaspeed on trade blacklist stalled ‘because commerce has the pen’ – US politics live

Treasury secretary says he was in favor ‘for months’ of putting Megaspeed on blacklist to stop Nvidia exporting advanced chips to Beijing

As I noted earlier, the calls for Howard Lutnick to appear before lawmakers on Capitol Hill have been answered.

According to several reports, the commerce secretary has “proactively agreed to appear voluntarily” before the Senate banking committee on 10 December to discuss his relationship with former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and any delay in preventing Megaspeed from buying considerable sums of Nvidia’s advanced chips.

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